FBI Slammed on Capitol Hill for 'Stupid' Ideas About Encryption

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by Errorcod3 • 11 years ago

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Someone1234• 11 years ago

Daniel F. Conley[0] knows better than technical experts? Alright we have to dive into their qualifications:

- Law school + bar exam

- Suffolk County District Attorney

- Assistant D.A.

- Anti-gang violence task force (D.A. attorney)

- Homicide Unit of the D.A.'s office

- City councilman

- District attorney

So, no, Conley has zero expertise in this area. They don't know better than the experts (who are correct by the way), and creating silly analogies about going to the moon doesn't help the situation. Why are we even putting this person on the stand? They just sound like an authoritarian nutjob.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_F._Conley

Zigurd• 11 years ago

Giving the US government a back door will legitimize the concept. Every tin-pot authoritarian jackass on the planet will write their spy infrastructure into law. It won't just be one back door in our products. It will be one back door per jurisdiction.

a3n• 11 years ago

Possibly fewer or more than one backdoor per jurisdiction.

Maybe there would be a Five Eyes back door, for the US and its Friends with Benefits. Maybe European. NATO. Warsaw Pact.

Muslim. Suni and Suffi. Turkey would have at least two, one for NATO and one for however they identify as a nation and a nation of Muslims.

California's backdoor would carry a warning about carcinogens.

Dublum• 11 years ago

I enjoyed this part in particular:

Conley made the most colorful remarks of the day, including saying that he didn’t believe technical experts who said building backdoors is impossible.

“Did John Kennedy say we couldn’t go to the moon?” Conley asked. “He said no, we’re going to go because it’s the hard thing to do.”

“I’m a proud and patriotic American, too,” Farenthold responded. “But maybe the proper analogy would be if Kennedy said ‘We’re going to go the moon and no one else is ever going to go. Ever.’”

Mtinie• 11 years ago

"Conley then proposed that a backdoor be implemented on personal devices but corporate networks be allowed to keep strong encryption with no 'golden keys.'"

Wow. This is deviously brilliant!

/cue establishment of tens of millions of new LLCs and corporations

States will love this, the revenues and tax implications are going to be massive! /s

FBI Slammed on Capitol Hill for 'Stupid' Ideas About Encryption

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