If we believed that the problem that Apple has had with the data encryption of the San Bernardino iPhone and therefore with the data encryption of services like iCloud It was over, we were wrong, and it is that in the United States a draft of what would be the bill that would oblige technology companies to have a tool that would allow, has already been published in case the justice requests it, to cancel the encryption of those devices or services.
As we have told you, the bill that is being prepared already has a draft that has been made public so that experts in the field begin to talk about it. and to establish the possible failures or contradictions that it could have.
This bill is promoted by Senator and Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Richard Burr and Senator and Vice President Dianne Feinstein and what they both intend is to make sense of the petitions that the government itself wants on the issue of data encryption.
As you know, it has been said that Apple is working hard on the encryption of the iCloud cloud so that when the user closes it, it is the user and nothing more than the user who can unlock the corresponding encryption. With this, what Apple would achieve is that by shielding the data at source and there is no way to decrypt them, the user is solely responsible for whether he discloses the keys to do so or not.
If we stop to read what that draft specifies we can read that.
Tech companies should bypass their own security measures to make encrypted data available to authorities in literally "intelligible" language.
Surely for you, follower of Soy de Mac, the previous sentence does not tell you more than what you have read, but for companies like Apple it means much more and that is that in the lawsuit that the FBI itself put against Apple at the time and that in the end withdrew what was specifically requested was what which the draft text now plays. The fact is that what that phrase implies is that the required data may NOT have been encrypted or that the company would encrypt it and then decrypt it again.
So it seems that technology companies have a legal battle ahead that could force them to such technology companies, in addition to devising their systems, must create a way to sabotage themselves if the justice requests it.
What do you think of data encryption from tech companies?
