Sen. Richard Burr (R-North Carolina), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, reportedly will introduce legislation soon to criminalize a company’s refusal to aid decryption efforts as part of a governmental investigation.
Isn’t this criminalization after the fact? There’s a name for this, I can’t remember, I’m tired. But…
I still can’t read “Burr, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee” without laughing. I hadn’t seen the latest from our own North Carolinian Republican Security Poser mentioned here. And I’m about to sign off and get some sleep.
But really folks, you can’t find a better way to contrast this dimwit with his opponent this year: Deborah Ross. This is a real opportunity to turn this seat blue, as it should be, while also ridding the senate of another republican doofus. Want to help us turn around the wave of vote-denying, science-denying, women’s rights-denying wackjobs causing us and the whole nation a passel o’ embarrassment? Consider supporting my ex-state house representative Deborah Ross. The anti-Burr.
I leave you with some good links. Go Apple. Go Ms. Ross.
Burr can bite me.
Update:
Senate Intel chief backs off on Bill criminalizing refusal to aid decryption
That didn't take long. The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr (R-N.C.), is backing off on trial-balloon legislation he floated Thursday that would criminalize Apple's or any other firm's refusal to assist the government's encryption efforts.
And an official First Prize for Best Comment goes to the first comment:
In other words after sounding off like a bloviating fuck trumpet, the Honorable Senator from NC was advised by an underpaid Congressional page that you can't make due process illegal and non-compliance with a court order is already illegal.
I wonder if the commenter lives in NC...