Law & Policy Category
Rietta's law and policy posts, including open letters opposing Georgia's SB 315 anti-hacking bill and warning Congress against mandated encryption backdoors.
05/03/2017
Americans' Access to Strong Encryption is at Risk, an Open Letter to Congress
by Frank Rietta
The track record of data breaches demonstrates an uncomfortable truth: when sophisticated adversaries want to hack a network, they will ultimately win. With a government mandated encryption backdoor, hackers will make Americans less safe both at home and abroad.
04/22/2016
Calls to Ban Effective Encryption Continue Despite Data Breach Crisis
by Frank Rietta
Calls for the U.S. Congress to ban effective encryption are repeated despite the current information security crisis in which data breaches are regular news.
04/08/2016
U.S. Senate Bill Seeks to Ban Effective Encryption, Making Security Illegal
by Frank Rietta
Senators Feinstein, Burr published a bill in the United States Senate that would effectively ban effective encryption. This bill essentially says you can not have any conversation or data exchange that the government can not access if it wants to.