R.I.P. Scout26
Smartphone users in California take notice: a new CA State Assembly bill would ban default encryption features on all smartphones. Assembly Bill 1681, introduced in January by Assembly member Jim Cooper, would require any smartphone sold in California “to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating system provider.” This is perhaps even more drastic than the legal precedent at stake in Apple’s ongoing showdown with the Justice Department, in which the government is trying to force a private company to write code undermining key security features in specific cases.Both Apple and Google currently encrypt smartphones running their iOS and Android operating systems by default. A.B. 1681 would undo this default, penalizing manufacturers and providers of operating systems $2,500 per device that cannot be decrypted at the time of sale.
It would be entertaining if they both just stopped selling phones in California.
I see some custom phone software being developed in Silicon Valley over the next few years . . .
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.
I hope they pass this, and all the Silicone Valley firms move to Seattle. The inevitable riots after folks can't buy get free smartphones anymore would be entertaining.
I see a huge increase in cell phone sales in Arizona and Nevada.
Hawkmoon - Never underestimate another person's capacity for stupidity. Any time you think someone can't possibly be that dumb ... they'll prove you wrong.
Viking - The problem with the modern world is that there aren't really any predators eating stupid people.
That's what I was thinking! Setup a store off of the first exit from the CA border. Profit!
