@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 4:55

The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act Bill

Last week, Senators Graham Cotton and Blackburn, the the the, the the the lawful access to encrypted data. Description this is a bill to bolster national security interests and better protect communities across across the country, ending the use of warrant proof encrypted technology. And I wanted to raise this because I'm a huge proponent of the Fourth Amendment, and the Fourth Amendment is pretty much the right to Privacy. This is the right of the people to be secure in their persons houses, papers and effects

#endtoendencryption #4thamendment

@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 4:59
So that said, any law that tries to circumvent this and makes it easy to break this end to end encryption by providing the decryption key to some app held by security personnel. To look into this information is definitely subject to misuse, abuse, theft, and you can put a lot of, you know guidelines around it, but I think that at the end, it's the people who are going to suffer
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:02
Hey, Spade, you did an excellent job explaining encryption, and I have to agree with everything you said, Phil. I had a few more things to add to start with the Fourth Amendment, you said is the right to Privacy. And the framers probably did not look far ahead enough to the days of the Internet and phones. But let's just take a step back. What about our houses, our literal residence and where we live?
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:29

Who owns my data on my phone

Hey, Phil, I was thinking about this some more, and I was also thinking about, you know, the question bookish podcast raised in the Exporting Audio and my explanation on the fact that we don't own it. We only license. And so it's not ours to give to somebody
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:35
I suppose since the law that is being brought in place requires a warrant be procured. I suppose that gives the government the right to enter my property without my permission. But I still don't understand how that gives Apple the right to unsecured it for the government, because as I said, they are not my landlord. So what gives the right to any tech firm to unsecured access to my property just because the government has a warrant? I just wonder how that reads
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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 3:17

Create a back door and hand over the keys!

Thank you so much for responding and giving your input. And Suda, I learned a little bit more about end to end encryption and exactly what that means. And Shami. The example you gave is exactly what I've been giving people where it's just, yeah
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