{"id":33518,"date":"2018-06-21T22:58:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T03:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33518"},"modified":"2018-06-22T06:59:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:59:57","slug":"abaj-fbi-overestimated-the-number-of-encrypted-phones-while-arguing-for-workarounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33518","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ: FBI overestimated the number of encrypted phones while arguing for workarounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/fbi_overestimated_the_number_of_encrypted_phones_while_arguing_for_workarou\/\">FBI overestimated the number of encrypted phones while arguing for workarounds<\/a> by Jason Tashea:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI has admitted that it overestimated\u2014by potentially 550 percent, sources say\u2014the<br \/>\nnumber of cellphones investigators cannot access due to encryption.<\/p>\n<p>The miscount was \u201cdue to an error in methodology,\u201d according to a correction to prepared remarks given by FBI Director Christopher Wray in January.<\/p>\n<p>In the remarks given at the FBI International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University in New York City, Wray talked about the \u201cGoing Dark\u201d problem, where encryption hides communications from law enforcement even after the phone has been taken into evidence.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: FBI overestimated the number of encrypted phones while arguing for workarounds by Jason Tashea:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33519,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518\/revisions\/33519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}