[Cryptography] ZDNet: "US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code"

[ianG]

On 17/03/2016 18:21 pm, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>    NEW YORK -- The US government has made numerous attempts to obtain
>    source code from tech companies in an effort to find security flaws
>    that could be used for surveillance or investigations.
>
>    The government has demanded source code in civil cases filed under
>    seal but also by seeking clandestine rulings authorized under the
>    secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a person with
>    direct knowledge of these demands told ZDNet. We're not naming the
>    person as they relayed information that is likely classified.
>
>    With these hearings held in secret and away from the public gaze, the
>    person said that the tech companies hit by these demands are losing
>    "most of the time."
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-pushed-tech-firms-to-hand-over-source-code/


So, first, you register the crypto code with the government, because we 
won CW-1.

Then they come after you for the source code in secret court.

Did we really win CW-1?

Who are we fooling?



iang