A week after a New York legislator introduced a bill that would require smartphone vendors to be able to decrypt users' phones on demand from law enforcement, a California bill with the same intent has been introduced in that state's assembly.
On Wednesday, California Assemblyman Jim Cooper submitted a bill that has remarkably similar language to the New York measure and would require that device manufacturers and operating system vendors such as Apple, Samsung, and Google be able to decrypt users' devices.
The law would apply to phones sold in California beginning Jan. 1, 2017.
Of course, "smartphone vendors" wouldn't be able to decrypt voice calls sent using VoIP software that was encrypted outside their domain of influence.
A senior Homeland Security official recently argued that Internet anonymity should outlawed in the same way that driving a car without a license plate is against the law.
"When a person drives a car on a highway, he or she agrees to display a license plate," Erik Barnett, an assistant deputy director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and attache to the European Union at the Department of Homeland Security, wrote:"The license plate's identifiers are ignored most of the time by law enforcement.
Law enforcement will use the identifiers, though, to determine the driver's identity if the car is involved in a legal infraction or otherwise becomes a matter of public interest.
Similarly, should not every individual be required to display a 'license plate' on the digital super-highway?"
"We can not be safe as long as we are secure," said Matthew Henry Biblical Commentator.
Security is the demented pursuit of all things that remove uncertainty.
Security offers you food and shelter in exchange for your own freedom.
It is the Matrix...
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