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Clueless FBI sabotages its own anti-encryption campaign.

by Joe Mobley
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Comey (FBI Director James Comey) called on Congress to update CALEA to require tech companies to build into their systems "lawful intercept capabilities" (don't call them backdoors), saying mistrust of government in response to the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden "has gone too far."
To illustrate what he perceives as a pressing need to access smartphones, Comey told compelling stories about the death of a two-year-old Los Angeles girl, a Louisiana sex offender who killed a 12-year-old boy, and a Sacramento hit-and-run that killed a man -- all law enforcement cases, he said, that required access to the content of phones.

The trouble is, according to a report by The Intercept, "cellphone evidence had nothing to do with the identification or capture of the culprits, and encryption would not remotely have been a factor."
An interesting read.

Clueless FBI sabotages its own anti-encryption campaign | InfoWorld

Joe Mobley
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    whut .
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    This doesn't REALLY sabotage the antiencryption deal, but it DOES sabotage the "blanket metadata warrant"! What they are saying is that they refined their "theories" and backed them up with METADATA! They did NOT use the CONTENT of the call(which WOULD require there to be NO encryption), but they determined WHEN they were at a given place, and WHO they called.

    Ironically, the simplest way for an HONEST person to disprove the theory, and the ONLY RELIABLE way to PROVE it, would be to, IN FRONT OF COURT, play the UNENCODED messages!

    The police often come up with CRAZY theories, and they should probably have a way to track the theory and metadata, to make sure that one doesn't affect the other. The metadata IS good for proving and refining theories, but theories may change to fit the metadata and convict an innocent party, and that innocent party will have to play the messages in court!

    Ever see"meet the parents"? The boyfriend states that the father is still working as a spy, etc... The father can't figure ut how to extricate himself from the situation. He was CAUGHT! He lied ONLY to keep it a surprise, NOT to avoid arrest, etc.... Evidence can back up most of it. He ends up telling them WHO he was calling, and why, and the contents of the message to tie it all together, and reveals a surprise wedding gift.

    Steve
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