[liberationtech] Adds on "EARN IT Act" (U.S.)

[Greg Maxwell]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:21 AM Robert Mathews (OSIA) <mathews at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> The EARN IT Act Raises Good Questions About End-to-End Encryption
> https://www.lawfareblog.com/earn-it-act-raises-good-questions-about-end-end-encryption

FWIW, the author of that article is the former general council for the
NSA and both he and and his firm have a more than 25 year history[1]
of advocacy  against the public's access to effective, non-backdoored,
cryptography.

The article attempts to argue that EARN IT isn't a move against the
public's access to end to end encryption, but I view the fact that
Stewart Baker has bothered writing on it to be pretty strong sign--
more than anything else I've seen so far-- that at attack on the
availability of end-to-end encryption is exactly what it is.

[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/clipper/ny-debate-jan-19-95.txt