AG Barr: USG Seeks Front Door to Encryption Not Backdoor

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Sat Oct 5 17:34:50 PDT 2019


On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 05:13:04AM +0200, Steven Schear wrote:
> AG Barr, Cypherpunks disagree. We generally only endorse open source, e2e,
> encryption for p2p communications with no societal or government say so. We

No, no "generally" about it - instead "absolutely, unequivocally,
without hesitation, and in respect of our individual and collective
fundamental human rights."

(I heard that from some anon somewhere...)


> countenance no provision for legal access. Secure, even covert,
> communications is a right which need only be perfected between the the
> communicating parties.

Indeed. It is our fundamental right to communicate privately.

Freedom has a price.


> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 9:25 PM John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:
> 
> > Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks at the Lawful Access
> > Summit
> >
> >
> > https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-remarks-lawful-access-summit
> >
> > "It is also said that the Government is seeking a secretive
> > 'backdoor' to everyone's communications and data.  That is false.  We
> > are seeking a front door.
> >
> > The heart of the matter is this: Do the security advantages of
> > warrant-proof encryption offered to the individual outweigh the risk
> > posed to the public by that same technology?  This is not a decision
> > for the companies to make by themselves.  It is a decision for
> > society to make.
> >
> > We think our tech sector has the ingenuity to develop effective ways
> > to provide secure encryption while also providing secure legal access."
> >
> >
> >


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