San Bernadino, Apple and Data Encryption

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/exclusive-major-powers-team-up-to-tell-china-of-concerns-over-new-laws/ar-BBqbHYi?ocid=spartanntp

QuoteThe United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and the European Union have written to China to express concern over three new or planned laws, including one on counterterrorism, in a rare joint bid to pressure Beijing into taking their objections seriously.[/quote

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QuoteOn the draft cyber security law, all five ambassadors were particularly concerned by provisions requiring companies to store data locally and to provide encryption keys, which technology firms worried may impinge on privacy and mean they would have to pass on sensitive intellectual property to the government in the name of security.
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mirth

http://www.neowin.net/news/researchers-break-apples-imessage-encryption-patch-coming-in-ios-93

QuoteEven Apple, with all their skills - and they have terrific cryptographers - wasn't able to quite get this right. So it scares me that we're having this conversation about adding back doors to encryption when we can't even get basic encryption right.
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