[Crypto-chi] Fwd: A government "golden key"to our communications?

[eviljoel]

Hey All,

EFF has a new petition out against key escrow (laws requiring that
encryption be breakable by the government). I encourage you to sign it.

Thanks,
eviljoel

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	A government "golden key"to our communications?
Date: 	Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:06:58 -0700
From: 	Rainey Reitman | EFF Activism Team <action at eff.org>
Reply-To: 	Rainey Reitman | EFF Activism Team <action at eff.org>
To: 	Joel Luellwitz <eviljoel at linux.com>



This is a friendly message from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. View
it in a web browser
<https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=1177>.

Electronic Frontier Foundation <https://www.eff.org/>


    Dear Joel,

It's a critical moment in the global debate over privacy, security, and
"backdoors" in encryption technology. 

Certain members of Congress and the FBI want to force companies to give
the government special access to our data. They're pushing short-sighted
proposals, like giving the government a "golden key" to unlock our
encrypted communications.
 
These are terrible ideas. It's not possible to give the government
special access to our data without creating vulnerabilities that could
be exploited by malicious actors and other governments.

President Obama's senior advisors are looking into this issue right now
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tech-trade-agencies-push-to-disavow-law-requiring-decryption-of-phones/2015/09/16/1fca5f72-5adf-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html>. We
need to make sure they hear from technology users like you.

We've launched a campaign through the White House petition site calling
on the president to do the right thing. 

<https://savecrypto.org/?r=eff>

<https://savecrypto.org/?r=eff>

Obama has promised to respond to any petition that gets 100,000
signatures. We launched less than a week ago, and we already have over
30,000. Can you help us get to 100,000 <https://savecrypto.org/?r=eff>?

Please add your name now, and demand strong, uncompromised encryption.
<https://savecrypto.org/?r=eff>

Fighting for a more secure digital future,

Rainey Reitman
EFF Activism Team
Support our work: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-eff-save-crypto

 

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