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By Matt Birchler
I've been writing here since 2010! Back when personal blogs were all the rage. Kids, ask your parents.

The Battle for Privacy Continues

Dave Mark writing for The Loop:

The way I read it, this would require device manufacturers (like Apple) to build in some mechanism to allow them to (as the result of a warrant) break encryption. This is no small thing. This would break Apple’s privacy foundation.

I think framing this around Apple kind of belittles the impact here: this is fundamentally breaking the idea of encrypted, private communication full stop.

Two years ago, the Republican-endorsed leadership at the FCC tore down net neutrality, and now the same party is coming after your right to have any private communication. I can understand the perspective that law enforcement would greatly benefit from this information in extreme cases, but it's not just a matter of officials getting this data, it's the fact that a back door is a fundamental security flaw in encryption and those flaws tend to get compromised.

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