26.08.2016 - 13:03 [ Techdirt ]

Canadian Law Enforcement Want Government To Force People To Turn Over Their Passwords

Legislators and law enforcement (for the most part…) have been hesitant to demand companies build backdoors into their encryption schemes. The unwillingness to cross this government overreach line hasn‘t really tempered cursing of the impending darkness, however. That remains, largely propelled by a few of law enforcement‘s loudest mouths, who haven‘t seen a problem nerds can‘t solve, even after the nerds have told them repeatedly the problem (safely backdoored encryption) is unsolvable.