[Infowarrior] - Back Down The Rabbit Hole About Encryption On Smartphones

[Richard Forno]

Well worth reading, if only to realise that what's old is new again.  :(   -- rick

Back Down The Rabbit Hole About Encryption On Smartphones
by Mike Godwin

from the the-rule-of-law dept

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote the disapproving memo that President Trump used as a pretext to fire FBI Director James Comey in May. But on at least one area of law-enforcement policy, Rosenstein and Comey remain on the same page—the Deputy AG set out earlier this month to revive the outgoing FBI director's efforts to limit encryption and other digital security technologies. In doing so, Rosenstein has drawn upon nearly a quarter century of the FBI's anti-encryption tradition. But it's a bad tradition.

Like many career prosecutors, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is pretty sure he's more committed to upholding the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law than most of the rest of us are. This was the thrust of Rosenstein's recent October 10 remarks on encryption, delivered to an audience of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy....

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171026/11163438495/back-down-rabbit-hole-about-encryption-smartphones.shtml