Vol. 32, No. 04
February 22, 2016
Correction, Please!
Cryptic Encryption Policies
Item: Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal on December 23, 2015 in which he claimed that “Encrypted devices block law enforcement from collecting evidence. Period.” Burr went on to say that encrypted devices and communications enable “murderers, pedophiles, drug dealers and, increasingly, terrorists.” He repeated the oft-recited claim that terrorists are using encryption to “go dark”:
Unfortunately, the protection that encryption provides law-abiding citizens is also available to criminals and terrorists. Today’s messaging systems are often designed so that companies’ own developers cannot gain access to encrypted content — and, alarmingly, not even when compelled by a court order. This allows criminals and terrorists, as the law enforcement community says, to “go dark” and plot with abandon.
Burr ended his article by calling for new laws banning the type of encryption offered by Apple and Google on the iOS and Android platforms, saying, “It’s time to update the law.”
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