![]() ![]() This is generally known as “end-to-end” encryption. Similarly, more and more communications service providers are designing their platforms and apps such that only the parties to the communication can access the content. This is commonly referred to as “user-only-access” device encryption. Increasingly, commercial device manufacturers have employed encryption in such a manner that only the device users can access the content of the devices. None of the following should be granted credence without additional transparency by the FBI: That fact makes the rest of Wray’s whining irrelevant. And it can do this by refusing to honestly discuss the issue by providing accurate stats and other information about criminal investigations. We don’t know how big the problem is because the FBI would obviously like us to believe it’s incredibly large. It has also refused to provide any information about the phones in its “uncrackable” stash - information like how often encryption has terminated investigations or how often the FBI has obtained evidence supporting criminal charges through other means that don’t involve cracking a seized device. We can’t possibly verify the “problem” (which was overstated for years) has “grown” because the FBI refuses to provide an accurate baseline or current count of encrypted devices in its possession. And these facts are not in evidence because the FBI - over the course of 4+ years - has refused to provide them. We’ll stop on his first sentence because what even the fuck. ![]() The problems caused by law enforcement agencies’ inability to access electronic evidence continue to grow. Under a section misleadingly titled “Lawful Access,” Wray says this: Director Chris “Horseshit” Wray - delivering a statement to the House oversight committee - continues to claim encryption can be safely broken and that no one should be allowed to call this a backdoor. No longer able to use an inflated number to justify his agitation, Wray relied on unknown unknowns to make his case for backdoored encryption.Īnd, despite four years of FBI silence on the actual encryption problem, Wray continues to claim the US would be safer if encryption was easily breakable. As the FBI continued to refuse to update this number, Wray leveraged the agency’s lack of honesty to argue against encryption. Since then, James Comey has exited the public sphere, fired by then-president Donald Trump and riding off into the sunset, hailed as a savior by idiotic “Comey is my homey” people who apparently forgot Comey reopened an investigation into presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private email server only days before the 2016 election.Ĭomey was replaced by Christopher Wray. The FBI has spent four years and 76 days refusing to provide an accurate count. Or, to put in layman’s terms, more than four years ago. The FBI has yet to provide an updated number. The correct number will be substantially lower. ** Due to an error in the FBI’s methodology, an earlier version of this speech incorrectly stated that the FBI had been unable to access 7,800 devices. References to the ~8,000 devices made by FBI directors and DOJ officials were replaced with footnotes acknowledging the mistake. Less than two years later, it was stating it had 7,800 impregnable devices in its possession.Ī few days later, the FBI promised to provide the public with an accurate number of devices in its possession. In 2016, the FBI reported it was only locked out of around 880 devices. This number aligns more with reality than the frequent claims the number of locked phones was nearing 8,000 devices. Here’s how this number expanded while Comey still had the FBI helm: The FBI has repeatedly provided grossly inflated statistics to Congress and the public about the extent of problems posed by encrypted cellphones, claiming investigators were locked out of nearly 7,800 devices connected to crimes last year when the correct number was much smaller, probably between 1,000 and 2,000, The Washington Post has learned. Here’s what happened while Comey was still the FBI director: But not before Comey was able to wield these false numbers as evidence the federal government needed to legislate backdoors. ![]() But the numbers were bogus, the FBI finally admitted. And these directors have done this by delivering a false narrative, aided and abetted by the FBI’s refusal to correct its miscount of uncrackable devices in its possession.įor years, FBI Director James Comey made anti-encryption hay by citing escalating numbers of devices the FBI simply couldn’t break. The FBI has continued - via consecutive directors - to agitate for encryption backdoors. The FBI needs to shut the fuck up about phone encryption. ![]()
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