US Senate: Lawful Access Bill

[purple379]

It would give the Justice Department the ability to require that manufacturers of encrypted devices and operating systems, communications providers, and many others must have the ability to decrypt data upon request. In other words, a backdoor.

The bill is sweeping in scope. It gives the government the ability to demand these backdoors in connection with a wide range of surveillance orders in criminal and national security cases, including Section 215 of the Patriot Act, a surveillance law so controversial that Congress can’t agree whether it should be reauthorized 8.

I think it more likely enforced like this.

Government to individual. We see you have encryption that does not have the our mandated back door to let us read it. That is a violation of the law, the jail time for that is xx years, and a maximum fine of yy. If you give us the login password, perhaps the Prosecutor will go easy. Plea bargain, and you might only pay a minimum fine. And a Suspended Sentence. Now the individual is either going to jail for not providing Passwords, or they will have a conviction on their record, after providing Passwords. If they ever do anything the government does not like, they automatically have violated their plea bargain, go to jail.

The government to country. We are glad that you use https to secure your connection. Now to facilitate our surveillance to stop pedophiles and terrorists, you must install a version of the browser that lets us into your connection, to watch your every keystroke, every bit of information that is sent to your computer. Else we, your government, will put you on our to-do list. Tor? Same thing.

In today's internet, there is no such thing as being lost in the crowd. The NSA can scan everything, and I think it does.

[8Geee]

Some may argue on a Constitutional Basis, that such a back-door leading to intrusion by the government IS placing (quartering) a soldier in our home, and/or with our personal possession (regarless of liscense/contract) that may be located in the home and/or on the person.

This phrasing is very much unconstitutional according to Article III (3) of the Amendments of The Constitution. The owner (of the home) MUST give consent in times of peace.OR war.

Food for thought in the modern age.

Regards
8Geee

[purple379]

It will be enclosed in some larger piece of legislation that MUST be passed, like Stimulus Two.

There was, I was told, a lot of conservative things in Stimulus One, that had nothing to do with Stimulus. It is just how things get done in Washington.