Tech firms “can and must” put ba ckdoors in encryption, AG Barr says

'US Attorney General William Barr today launched a new front in the
feds' ongoing fight against consumer encryption, railing against the
common security practice and lamenting the "victims" in its wake.

"The deployment of warrant-proof encryption is already imposing huge
costs on society," Barr claimed in remarks at a cybersecurity
conference held at Fordham University Tuesday morning. Barr added that
encryption "seriously degrades" law enforcement's ability to "detect
and prevent a crime before it occurs," as well as making eventual
investigation and prosecution of crime more difficult.

The existence of encryption means "converting the Internet and
communications into a law-free zone" that criminals will happily take
advantage of to do more crimes, Barr added, likening it to a
neighborhood that local cops have abandoned.

The cost of encryption, he said, is measured in "victims" who might
have been saved from crime if law enforcement had been able to
lawfully intercept communications earlier.

He also accused tech firms of "dogmatic" posturing, saying lawful
backdoor access "can be and must be" done, adding, "We are confident
that there are technical solutions that will allow lawful access to
encrypted data and communications by law enforcement, without
materially weakening the security provided by encryption."'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/tech-firms-can-and-must-put-backdoors-in-encryption-ag-barr-says/

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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