(credit: Christiaan Colen)
The two US lawmakers behind legislation requiring the tech sector to build backdoors in encrypted products are playing the terrorism card. In an editorial Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Richard Burr, a Republican of North Carolina, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat of California, stoke fears that our personal safety is tied to their proposed legislation.
The pair cite what they called an "islamic State-inspired attack last year in Garland, Texas" and the non terror-related murder of a Louisiana pregnant woman named Brittney Mills.
"These are two of the many cases where law enforcement is unable to fully investigate terrorism or criminal activities. In fact, today the FBI is unable to gain access to data on many of the mobile devices they obtain that are password protected," the lawmakers write.
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