FBI Wants $38 Million In Funding To Break Encryption

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“The budget request will not be used to hire any new staffers on top of the 39 staffers (including 11 agents).” Wait, the feds only have 50 people working against encryption?

…the feds want access to your encrypted communications, and it's willing to throw money at doing exactly that. According to the document, the additional funding will "counter the threat of Going Dark, which includes the inability to access data because of challenges related to encryption, mobility, anonymization, and more." The FBI refers to "going dark" as a metaphor for not being able to read the communications and messages of suspected criminals and terrorists.
 
See, that's the problem with government: one part wants something (FBI cracking encryption) that another part (NSA already having done it long ago) and the two just can't get together on it at all. Compartmentalization really sucks. ;)
 
Good luck breaking a diced one time pad you totalitarian fucks.
 
They want control of all forms of communications including payments (cryptocurrency). If they break SHA256... people will port to SHA512.... etc.... Just another useless money grab.
 
Yeah, this is silly.

Firstly, it is a futile attempt, as encryption algorithms are always improving, and when one is compromised a new one will appear.

Secondly, encryption serves a very important function, and no one, not the FBI, not the CIA, not the NSA should have the ability, or the legal powers to break it.

If they want to find evidence they should do it the old fashioned way that worked just fine before the low hanging fruit of mobile devices and computers.

Is it more expensive? Yes. Is it more and harder work? Yes. But our civil liberties and rights are worth more than a mer inconvenience to law enforcement.
 
Instead what we should have is a law prohibiting any arm of the government or any private entity from breaking encryption and eavesdropping.
 
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-surveillance-encryption/index.html

"Hypponen, the chief research officer for F-Secure, said he believes the NSA and GCHQ had probably cracked the encryption by placing moles in key companies at key locations. "Any major service provider must have sizable amounts of moles from intelligence agencies. Remember that the NSA has 35,000 people working for it," he said."

"The ordinary user should not be worried by these revelations -- it's obvious that intelligence agencies are not interested in hacking financial transactions -- but they should be outraged."

TRUST NO ONE!
 
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