By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has says its inability to crack encrypted cellphones during investigations makes the country less safe. But 72 percent of 100 cybersecurity leaders from government, academia and the private sector surveyed by the Washington Post’s “Cybersecurity 202” disagree. The survey showed a broad opposition to the FBI’s demand that device…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Oops. The FBI has long used the figure of 7,700 when talking about the number of encrypted cellphones that investigators are unable to access in 2017. Now, USA Today reports that the number was inflated because of a flawed internal accounting system that relied on multiple databases. The FBI issued a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s an embarrassing revelation about the U.S. Marshals Service. Devlin Barrett of the Wall Street Journal reports that the agency has lost track of at least 2,000 encrypted two-way radios and other communication devices valued at millions of dollars. The Journal cites internal agency documents, and notes that “some within…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is making moves to try and get a better handle on the activities of terrorists. Charlie Savage of the The New York Times reports that federal law enforcement and national security officials plan next year to seek new regulations from Congress that would allow agencies to…
