{"id":179085,"date":"2018-05-22T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/22\/rule-1-of-fbi-legislative-proposals-is-dont-trust-the-fbi\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T00:15:00","slug":"rule-1-of-fbi-legislative-proposals-is-dont-trust-the-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/22\/rule-1-of-fbi-legislative-proposals-is-dont-trust-the-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule 1 of FBI Legislative Proposals is Don’t Trust the FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rule 2 is see rule number 1<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The FBI has repeatedly provided grossly inflated statistics to Congress and the public about the extent of problems posed by encrypted cellphones, claiming investigators were locked out of nearly 7,800 devices connected to crimes last year when the correct number was much smaller, probably between 1,000 and 2,000, The Washington Post has learned.<\/span>

<\/span> Over a period of seven months, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray cited the inflated figure as the most compelling evidence for the need to address what the FBI calls \u201cGoing Dark\u201d \u2014 the spread of encrypted software that can block investigators\u2019 access to digital data even with a court order.<\/span>

<\/span> The FBI first became aware of the miscount about a month ago and still does not have an accurate count of how many encrypted phones they received as part of criminal investigations last year, officials said. Last week, one internal estimate put the correct number of locked phones at 1,200, though officials expect that number to change as they launch a new audit, which could take weeks to complete, according to people familiar with the work.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cThe FBI\u2019s initial assessment is that programming errors resulted in significant over-counting of mobile devices reported,\u2019\u2019 the FBI said in a statement Tuesday. The bureau said the problem stemmed from the use of three distinct databases that led to repeated counting of phones. Tests of the methodology conducted in April 2016 failed to detect the flaw, according to people familiar with the work.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Since then, Wray has repeated the claim about 7,800 locked phones, including in a March speech. Those remarks were echoed earlier this month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, the FBI was unable to access investigation-related content on more than 7,700 devices \u2014 even though they had the legal authority to do so. Each of those devices was tied to a threat to the American people,\u201d Sessions said.<\/p>\n

Officials now admit none of those statements are true.<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s admission is likely to fuel further criticism from lawmakers, privacy advocates and tech companies, and hinder the bureau\u2019s public efforts to address encryption issues.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you believe that this was an unintentional error, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you. <\/p>\n

If law enforcement gets their way in shaping criminal justice, you get a police state, because it makes their job easier.<\/p>\n

This is why I get paranoid about legislative initiatives from law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rule 2 is see rule number 1: The FBI has repeatedly provided grossly inflated statistics to Congress and the public about the extent of problems posed by encrypted cellphones, claiming investigators were locked out of nearly 7,800 devices connected to crimes last year when the correct number was much smaller, probably between 1,000 and 2,000, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,368,387,526,449,494],"class_list":["post-179085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-corruption","tag-hypocrisy","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-legislation","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}