[Cryptography] Feinstein-Burr crypto bill introduced

[John Levine]

It's still a jumbled mess, Ron Wyden says he'll filibuster it, and
nobody seems to think it's going anywhere.  The most interesting bit
is that it says that you only have to crack the crypto:

   if such data has been
19 made unintelligible by a feature, product, or service
20 owned, controlled, created, or provided, by the cov-
21 ered entity or by a third party on behalf of the cov-
22 ered entity. 

Dunno if this is deliberately aimed at Apple, but I'd read it to cover
any software distributed, i.e. "provided", through the app store.

(Before responding, remember that laws are not software, and judges
have no interest in tricky hyper-literal readings of laws.)

Current draft here:

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=files.serve&File_id=5B990532-CC7F-427F-9942-559E73EB8BFB

Press release here:

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=EA927EA1-E098-4E62-8E61-DF55CBAC1649

R's,
John