Microsoft may have your encryption key:here’s how to take it back

As happens from time to time, somebody hasspotted a feature in Windows 10 that isn't actually new and has largely denounced it as a great privacy violation. The Intercept has written that if you have bought a Windows PC recently then Microsoft probably has your encryption key. This is a reference to Windows' device encryption ...

Lawmakers push for commission on encryption

Congress should create a national commission to investigate the difficulties encryption has created for law enforcement, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers argued Monday in a Washington Post op-ed. “Congress must be proactive and should officially convene a body of experts representing all of the interests at stake so we can evaluate and improve America’s security ...

China Antiterror Law Doesn’t Require Encryption Code Handovers

BEIJING—China passed a new antiterrorism law that stepped back from previous language of concern to global technology firms, but which still raises questions about its scope and the potential impact on companies doing business there. The law, passed Sunday by China’s rubber-stamp parliament, also authorized the armed forces and paramilitary police to take part in ...

Senate Intel chair: "It's time" for encryption legislation

Congress must enact a law that would require companies to decrypt data upon government request, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) argued Thursday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. “Criminals in the U.S. have been using this technology for years to cover their tracks,” Burr said. “The time has come for Congress and technology ...

Best Disk Lock Has Been Updated to Version 2.62

The powerful data protection software-Best Disk Lock has been updated to version 2.62. There are many improvements in version 2.62, which are designed to make the program even easier to use. The latest version software not only improved the stability for disk elementary-lock, changed the Lock Log to Lock Record for easily unlocking, but also ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Mounts Defense of Encryption on "60 Minutes"

In a “60 Minutes” appearance Sunday, Apple CEO Tim Cook reiterated his support of encryption, in the face of renewed criticism from the U.S. intelligence community that these digital locks interfere with the ability to detect threats to national security. Cook used an interview with CBS’s Charlie Rose to lay out his argument for why ...

Paris attack planners used encrypted apps, investigators believe

French counterterrorism investigators believe that the men suspected in last month's Paris attacks used widely available encryption tools to communicate with each other, officials familiar with the investigation said, raising questions about whether the men used U.S.-made tools to hide the plot from authorities. Investigators have previously said that messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram were ...

Encrypted Messages Stymied Probe of Garland Shooting — FBI Director

FBI Director James Comey Jr. testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington December 9, 2015. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who said after the Paris attacks that the status quo was "unacceptable". He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation was focused intently on the threat of homegrown violent extremism, "the radicalization in ...

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