A draft version of a bill on encryption sponsored by Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has made its way to the internet, and it’s exactly as bad a proposed law as everyone worried it would be. The suspiciously (but mercifully) brief Compliance with Court Orders Act, as it stands in draft form, is the technological equivalent of requiring all pigs to fly.
“No person or entity is above the law,” it begins, pompously. Appropriate security should be employed in maintaining “the privacy of United States persons,” but companies…
Feinstein and Burr’s draft encryption bill would essentially make all encryption illegal
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