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04/14/16 10:09:06
A new draft bill in Congress will force tech companies to undermine or break their own security features and encryption anytime law enforcement asks them to. Sound terrible? It is. Here’s what the bill says, and what you can do about it. For those just catching up, Apple and the FBI had a big legal throwdown recently over an iPhone owned by Syed Rizwan Farook, the gunman in the San Bernandino mass shooting. The FBI demanded that Apple create a tool to get around the phone’s PIN lock. Apple argued this was an undue burden and would weaken the security of all iPhones. Eventually, the FBI backed down and found a third-party firm to unlock the iPhone, although there’s another phone in play right now, just across the country.
A new draft bill in Congress will force tech companies to undermine or break their own security features and encryption anytime law enforcement asks them to. Sound terrible? It is. Here’s what the bill says, and what you can do about it.
For those just catching up, Apple and the FBI had a big legal throwdown recently over an iPhone owned by Syed Rizwan Farook, the gunman in the San Bernandino mass shooting. The FBI demanded that Apple create a tool to get around the phone’s PIN lock. Apple argued this was an undue burden and would weaken the security of all iPhones. Eventually, the FBI backed down and found a third-party firm to unlock the iPhone, although there’s another phone in play right now, just across the country.
Read more @ http://lifehacker.com/what-you-should-know-about-congresss-latest-attempt-to-1770468594
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