Sentences with phrase «encryption backdoors for»

Government officials have been advocating for encryption backdoors for quite some time now, and elevating the Cyber Command «status» could lead to domestic online communication breaches and spying as well.

Not exact matches

(The hackers» finding, for what its worth, has less to do with encryption than it has to do with «backdoors» generally.)

See, for example, this ZDNet article from yesterday about a new report saying «European cybersecurity agency ENISA has come down firmly against backdoors and encryption restrictions, arguing they only help criminals and terrorists while harming industry and society.»

After reviewing over 90 submissions for the 2017 Law Review Award, Allen Cook Barr's student - note, Guardians of Your Galaxy S7: Encryption Backdoors and the First Amendment, was deemed the best out of this year's crop.

Apple's senior VP of software engineering maintained the company's hard line on encryption in response to a story saying the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice are renewing their pursuit of backdoors for searches by law enforcement.

Instead of calling for a ban on government mandated encryption backdoors, something computer security experts have universally urged, she's...

Currently, implementing encryption with no backdoors for law enforcement is completely legal in the US.

Senior federal officials met with Silicon Valley executives recently in what's been viewed as a bid to get high - tech firms to cooperate with government requests for data and, possibly, introduce encryption backdoors.

Separately, Apple's software chief Craig Federighi reiterated Apple's stance on the need of having strong encryption, the kind that can't have any backdoors like the US government asks for.

At the time, Apple was being urged by the FBI to give up the keys to the encryption of its iMessage service following the San Bernardino killings — something Apple refused and continues to refuse to do — and the UK was passing the Investigatory Powers Bill that proposed a backdoor for spy and police agencies.

Furthermore, concerns about the trustworthiness of these Chinese companies seems hugely hypocritical when you consider that the FBI asked Apple to create a special government - only backdoor into iOS — and continues to push the need for encryption backdoors — which is the exact thing they are worried about the People's Republic doing with Apple's Chinese competitors.

Some people have called this feature an encryption backdoor, while Facebook and WhatsApp have defended against such claims, saying that the vulnerability is actually a convenience feature for users.