On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:58:36 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'Senator Ron Wyden criticized Wray on Thursday ...'
Wyden is one of the slightly more clued-up ones. Unlike British PM Theresa May, among so many others <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/25/uk_prime_minister_encryption/>: UK Prime Minister Theresa May has reiterated calls for a special magic version of encryption to be developed by technologists so law enforcement can access everyone's communications on demand – and somehow engineer it so that no one else can abuse this backdoor. One difference with this article is the writer tries to figure out why the politicians keep repeating a point that they know has already been beaten to death: So what are politicians hoping to achieve by maintaining an impasse: refusing to acknowledge the logical argument against putting a backdoor into encryption while jamming their foot in the door by claiming that the "best brains" can come up with a solution? In all likelihood, they are waiting on a change in public mood. Crimefighters, snoops, and politicians who rely on intelligence gathered on citizens to make critical decisions are not willing to accept this rise of strong personal encryption as the new status quo. And so they are waiting for the public mood to turn – which, unfortunately, will likely come when a major terrorist attack kicks off and governments can point to the use of encrypted apps as a critical factor for why the assault wasn't thwarted earlier.