US senators' bill won't make it to the floor of Congress
27 May 2016 at 19:37, Kieren McCarthy
Yay...thank goodness for that...by all accounts this was a pile on nonsense...if there ever was one.
"A proposed piece of US legislation that would have required American tech companies to cripple the encryption in their products is dead in the water.
The daft bill was championed by Senators Richard Burr (R?NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D?CA) in February following an increasingly rancorous debate over encryption, and at one point it looked likely to make it into law. Just last month, Senator Ron Wyden said he was planning to filibuster it
But this week, it became clear that the proposed law – which would, essentially, require engineers to make their encryption reversible for investigators – will not make it to the Senate floor. Which is good because it was so poorly written, it could have banned image compression among other things.
In many respects, the public fight between the FBI and Apple has been the deciding factor. Despite having been set back a number of times, the FBI used the shootings in San Bernardino, from a couple who associated themselves with the Islamic State, as the start point for a renewed campaign to be given access to encrypted phone data."
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