Collaborate Disseminate
Apple’s choice has caused some U.S. encryption defenders to worry about how the company may respond to similar requests from other governments.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray did something Wednesday few of his recent predecessors have done: He finally provided what the bureau believes is a model for how private U.S. technology companies can comply with law enforcement requests to access encrypted data. Wray, who spoke Wednesday at a FBI conference in Boston, claimed that it’s still possible to develop a workaround for law enforcement to collect evidence on encrypted systems that is “consistent with both the rule of law and strong cybersecurity.” In prepared remarks, the FBI director specifically named Palo Alto, Calif.-based Symphony, the creator of an encrypted messaging platform that’s popular in the banking industry, as an example for how other technology companies could one day work with the FBI. “Some of you may know about the chat and messaging platform called Symphony,” Wray said Wednesday. “This was used by a group of major banks, and marketed as offering something called ‘guaranteed […]
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