A US senator proposes an explosive countermeasure against backdoors FBI

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden hope to forget the failure of the vote in the Senate of Freedom Act last month.

Ron Wyden, Democratic senator from Oregon, introduced a bill to prevent the government from exploiting backdoors and vulnerabilities of security technology products and solutions to facilitate its surveillance operations.

Democratic US Senator from the State of Oregon, Ron Wyden, hope to pass the US legislation aimed to preempt the actions of government's spying on users through products and technology solutions. Called Secure Data Act, this bill is extracted from a previous, broader named Freedom Act and presented last November in the Senate, but had then not get a final vote despite the support of the administration of Barack Obama.

With Secure Data Act, Ron Wyden said his bill is in response to proposals made ​​by US government officials forcing IT sector companies design backdoors (backdoors) in their products. "The strong encryption and security on the noise emitted from a computer are the best way to keep the data of the US safe from pirates and foreign threats," said Senator.

The Secure Data Act in the crosshairs of the FBI director

Ron Wyden also says that technological mandates driven by the government to weaken the security of data in order to facilitate government investigations, compromise the national and economic security and privacy. "An integrated backdoor in a security system it is compromised, and companies will have less incentive to invest in new security technologies," he also said. By allowing these backdoors, already weakened customer confidence in the products and services because of revelations about the government surveillance program, would further erode a little more after him.

The Secure Data Act therefore seeks to establish that no agency is able to mandate a manufacturer, developer or seller of computers, software or electronic terminals to change or develop safety functions in order to monitor any any user of these products. Unless they are already covered by CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act), which requires telecommunications operators and broadband providers to make available to the Justice of interception capabilities. "Adopted 20 years ago, this measure does not cover the latest communication technologies," stressed however James B. Comey, FBI Director. According to him, seeing also a very dim view of proposals Apple and Google started encrypting by default the data of users of iOS and Android, the same Congress should pass legislation requiring all tools communication allow police access to user data.

Confident, however, Ron Wyden said his bill has a number of support within the House of Representatives, Thomas Massie and Zoe Lofgren, who last June adopted an amendment to ban electronic vulnerability warrants.