[HN Gopher] FBI Complains About Encryption Making It Difficult t...
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FBI Complains About Encryption Making It Difficult to Scrape Dead
Person's Phone
Author : hn_acker
Score : 12 points
Date : 2024-07-31 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.techdirt.com)
| hn_acker wrote:
| The full title is:
|
| > FBI Back To Complaining About Encryption Making It Difficult To
| Scrape All Data From A Dead Person's Phone
| hn_acker wrote:
| An excerpt I found insightful from a comment [1] on the original
| page:
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| > Complaining that they can't access everything, all the time on
| electronic devices/services is no different than whining that
| people are able to speak without being recorded and that means
| that criminal communications might not be available for law
| enforcement to access.
|
| [1] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/31/fbi-back-to-
| complaining-...
| mikece wrote:
| And if they got their way Federal Law Enforcement would abolish
| the 4th and 5th Amendments and record everyone, everywhere, all
| the time. Because it's easier than doing actual investigation and
| police work.
| MissTake wrote:
| Think the word I'm thinking of is "Good".
| chatmasta wrote:
| Law enforcement was in an adjacent building 20 feet from the
| shooter and they couldn't stop him. I'm not sure that breaking
| encryption will help them do their job.
| mjfl wrote:
| It's always interesting seeing these headlines because you always
| have to assume that Apple has been coerced by the govt into
| putting a backdoor into the phones, but maybe not. If I remember
| correctly, the FBI got an Israeli company to break into the
| phone, and they succeeded with ease. Maybe it's not the US
| government that got the backdoor, but another...
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