MIT Technology Reviews reports:
Apple and Facebook sent representatives today to Washington, DC, where senators pushed them to create lawful back doors to encrypted data.
A decades-old debate: Government officials have long argued that encryption makes criminal investigations too hard. Companies, they say, should build in special access that law enforcement could use with a court’s permission. Technologists say creating these back doors would weaken digital security for everyone.
But the heat is on: “My advice to you is to get on with it,” Senator Lindsey Graham told the Silicon Valley giants at today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “Because this time next year, if we haven’t found a way that you can live with, we will impose our will on you.” Apple and Facebook representatives at the hearing came under fire from senators in both parties, while Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance, one of the biggest advocates of back doors, was treated as a star witness.
Read more on MIT Technology Review.
OK, let’s get on with it. Let’s get on with getting people out of Congress if they don’t understand that backdoors for one mean backdoors for everyone.
h/t, Joe Cadillic