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FBI head: terror fight requires open backdoors to encrypted user data
Source: The Guardian
FBI head: terror fight requires open backdoors to encrypted user data
Sam Thielman in New York
Wednesday 9 December 2015 18.57 GMT
FBI director James Comey called on tech companies to create backdoor access to their users’ data on Wednesday, arguing it was necessary to tackle everything from terrorism to child kidnapping.
In a hearing about the San Bernardino massacre, Comey said keys to encrypted devices should be held by device manufacturers “so that they could comply with judicial orders”.
His comments are the latest in a series of attacks from senior US figures on tech companies in the wake of the Paris attacks and San Bernardino. Comey argued the growing popularity of encryption was making law enforcement increasingly difficult and offered as evidence 109 encrypted messages between a known terrorist overseas and one of the killers in the Garland, Texas shooting in May.
At the time of that shooting, one of the attackers was already being monitored by the FBI and had a criminal record. Comey offered no evidence that either the San Bernardino or Paris attackers used encryption.
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Sam Thielman in New York
Wednesday 9 December 2015 18.57 GMT
FBI director James Comey called on tech companies to create backdoor access to their users’ data on Wednesday, arguing it was necessary to tackle everything from terrorism to child kidnapping.
In a hearing about the San Bernardino massacre, Comey said keys to encrypted devices should be held by device manufacturers “so that they could comply with judicial orders”.
His comments are the latest in a series of attacks from senior US figures on tech companies in the wake of the Paris attacks and San Bernardino. Comey argued the growing popularity of encryption was making law enforcement increasingly difficult and offered as evidence 109 encrypted messages between a known terrorist overseas and one of the killers in the Garland, Texas shooting in May.
At the time of that shooting, one of the attackers was already being monitored by the FBI and had a criminal record. Comey offered no evidence that either the San Bernardino or Paris attackers used encryption.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/09/fbi-director-tech-companies-backdoors-user-data-access-counter-terrorism
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