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Business/Finance See other Business/Finance Articles Title: The FBI pushes Congress to alter Silicon Valley’s “business model” “When the FBI killed capitalism,” quips the civil liberties blogger Marcy Wheeler on Twitter. Here we go again: The feds say Silicon Valley needs to rethink its “business model.” We return today to the topic of “end-to-end encryption” -- the security technology Apple has built into the current version of iOS and Google has built into the current version of Android. “It means that only the sender and the recipient of a message can unlock it,” explains Andrea Peterson at The Washington Post -- “so, basically, only each ‘end’ of the conversation holds the keys.” That also means it’s impossible for the feds to read intercepted messages. The feds don’t like that, and they’ve been squawking about it for well over a year. The squawking has grown since the attacks in Paris -- never mind that the killers used unencrypted text messages to communicate. The feds want Silicon Valley to build a “back door” into their products so the feds can get access. The problem is that a back door would also let in hackers, foreign governments and so on. “You can’t have a back door in the software because you can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys,” Apple CEO Tim Cook once explained. Other tech experts have said the feds are expecting a “unicorn.” But FBI chief James Comey won’t give up: Yesterday, he told credulous senators that “it’s not a technical issue… It’s a business model question. The question we have to ask is: Should they change their business model?” Oy. “Virtually all of the senators fawned all over his remarks and pledged to go even farther than the FBI director wanted,” writes a discouraged Trevor Timm from the Freedom of the Press Foundation. “Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ranking member on the powerful Intelligence committee, said she was working on a bill to outlaw such encryption tools… “Even Comey admitted this type of law wouldn’t stop terrorists from using encryption. After all, they’ve been using encryption for decades, and even now, the top five encrypted applications ISIS supposedly recommends to their followers are either open-source (meaning the code is already all over the Internet), made by companies in other countries or both… “So basically what the FBI director is proposing,” concludes Mr. Timm, “is that we lower everyone’s security for the applications that are popular with hundreds of millions of people -- even if terrorists will still be able to use encryption unimpeded.” Sounds like a hell of a “business model” to us… Poster Comment: Back doors are not just for the good guys. As we used to say on the CB when we were driving the big truck, "Bend over and back up." LOL Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
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They have a very simple agenda in politics -- ruin goodthings and make bad ones worse. The moral hubris they show with every move is shocking.
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