After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors

After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors

A trio of Republican senators on Tuesday proposed legislation that requires service providers and device makers in America to help the Feds bypass encryption when presented with a court-issued warrant.


The law bill [PDF] is dubbed the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, which uncharacteristically cannot be condensed into a pandering acronym. This latest legislative attempt to make encryption – math – insecure on-demand should not be confused with another bill up for consideration in the United States' Congress, the EARN-IT Act, which threatens service providers with liability for supporting private, aka encrypted, communications.


It's also not the Burr-Feinstein anti-encryption bill from 2016 but it's ..

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