Law Enforcement Agencies Should be Allowed to Decrypt information

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Law Enforcement Agencies Should be Allowed to
Decrypt information

• Michael Davis
• Greg Patterson
• Nick Timkovich
• Brandon Gibson
• Hamid Mashayekh

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Safety

• Allowing Law Enforcement to have access to
  encrypted information will decrease time to solve
  cases.
• May lead to prevention of crimes
• In 1995 the Philippine government found the
  computer of convicted World Trade Center bomber
  Ramzi Yousef. The computer contained plans for
  future terrorist acts which took the US
  Government two years to decrypt
• USA today

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What do you have to hide?

• Encryption should not be necessary if you are
  obeying the laws.
• What do you have to hide if you are doing nothing
  wrong?
• Trade Secrets and personal activities can be
  encrypted, but are of no use to law enforcement
  officials.

4
They already have

• Phone records
• Satellite imagery
• Financial records
• Wire taps
• Driving records
• Medical information
• Etc..

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Why should they have access?

• Probable cause
• The solution is not to give law enforcement free
  reign over you, but to give them access in the
  event of probable cause.
• Inherent Trust
• We trust the law only to concern themselves with
  criminal activities.
• We also depend on them to protect us by doing
  their jobs.

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Concerns

• Loss of Privacy
• The major con to granting Law Enforcement access
  to encrypted information is a loss of Privacy.
  However, granting access to encrypted data is
  less invading than a pat down or strip search.