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July 23, 2019 02:02 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tMUjlym5WAo/ag-barr-says-consumers-should-accept-security-risks-of-encryption-backdoors
AG Barr Says Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors
U.S. attorney general William Barr has said consumers should accept the risks that encryption backdoors pose to their personal cybersecurity to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted communications. From a report: In remarks, Barr said the "significance of the risk should be assessed based on its practical effect on consumer cybersecurity, as well as its relation to the net risks that offering the product poses for society." He suggested that the "residual risk of vulnerability resulting from incorporating a lawful access mechanism is materially greater than those already in the unmodified product. [...] Some argue that, to achieve at best a slight incremental improvement in security, it is worth imposing a massive cost on society in the form of degraded safety." The risk, he said, was acceptable because "we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications," and "not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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