Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance'
"A covered entity that receives a court order for information or data shall provide such information or data in an intelligible format; or provide such technical assistance as is necessary to obtain such information or data in an intelligible format or achieve the purpose of the court order."Okay, so I get that the main section of the bill requires companies which provide encryption to decrypt data upon receiving a court order demanding access to it. If the company is capable of decrypting its customers' data, that's a scary thought.But it's followed by two very conflicting subsections: (b) nothing in this act may be construed to require or prohibit any specific design or operating system to be adopted by any covered entity, but (c) a provider of remote computing services to the public shall ensure such products are capable of complying with a court order to decrypt.It seems like this could be read as "you must build backdoors", but also as "we're not telling you how to architect your product." These two sections are completely at odds.By the way, Scribd sucks. Have a downloadable PDF: https://josephhall.org/f0eabaa89b8ee38577bf7d0fd50ddf0d58ecd... (it's still just non-OCR'd images though :<)