Allow State Level Decryption?
Ted Lieu, California Congressman is introducing the “Ensuring National Constitutional Rights for Your Private Telecommunications Act of 2016,” which will prevent the state from allowing decrypting data at state level. As we have mentioned before that backdoor can not be used for good guys only, any backdoor is backdoor for everyone. If it’s there it will be exploited by the hackers as well. We know anything can be hacked, there’s no such thing as 100% secure network.
“You cannot design a technological backdoor only for the good guys, because hackers will eventually find that backdoor, or what’s more likely is the federal government will get hacked through that backdoor” says the Congressman. Lieu also said “There’s not a single shred of evidence that an encryption backdoor would have prevented any terrorist attack,” says Lieu
Last month the bill, which allowed full access to law enforcement when the evidence are seized. This is a huge concern for Ted Lieu. “I was a little concerned, but I realized he was a Republican legislator in a democratically controlled state,” … “But when a Democratic state legislator in California issued a similar bill, then I got very concerned, because I come from the California state legislator, it is controlled by Democrats, and this bill could certainly be passed.”
“It’s particularly bad for states to legislate something like this. Their power only extends to their borders, so if you required Apple to sell cellphones in California that were decryptable you could just go to Oregon, or Connecticut and get one that wasn’t,” says Andrew Crocker, attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “You start to play out how it would work, and it seems pretty impossible for states to control the flow of software and cellphones in and out of the state.
What do you think about this bill and what are your thoughts on state level decryption?
