Them to plan secretly, conspirators in france, belgium, and syria. Now top lawmakers are considering legislation that would compel tech giants like apple, google and facebook to hand over encrypted data to Law Enforcement. Even simple commercial products that you can buy encrypt the conversation. And some of them encrypted in a way that even with a court order, you cant break into it. Reporter Tech Companies say their products are designed that way for a reason, to protect personal information like bank account and credit card data. Sometimes even the Tech Companies themselves cant crack them. Industry representative michael beckerman. When youre asking for a back door encryption, youre asking to have an engineered vulnerability in the system that can be used by Law Enforcement or the governments but also that same vulnerability can be statesponsored terrorists. Reporter after the San Bernardino shooters posted their allegiance to isis on facebook, lawmakers introduced a bill that woul
People from boarding an airplane to and from the United States but theres nothing pre 10th them preventing them from buying a gun or an Assault Rifle until now in connecticut. We believe we have the power under executive order because what we are denying is a permit and its a permit process and theres an appeal in the permit process if youre denied. Reporter following the massacre at sandy hook, Governor Dannel Malloy pushed for stricter gun control laws. After last weeks mass shooting in San Bernardino, president obama called for a ban on sales to those on the no fly list. This is basic common sense, the American People get it. Reporter the nra was quick to react. In a statement saying the president knows full well that law abiding americans who pose no threat to National Security are mistakenly on the terror watch list, a secret government errors. A sentiment echoed by the owner of a new milford pistol range. It is a slippery slope and malloy, little by little they and their aim is o
Law enforcement is blind to the plans of some terrorists because their communications are encrypted. Heres nancy cordes. Reporter this is where terrorists turn these days when they want to talk undetected, a messaging app, called telegram, available for free on any smartphone. Its the goto application for terrorist communication. Reporter elliot zweig is Deputy Director at the middle east Media Research institute. Telegram has set it up that even they themselves dont retain the information. They cannot monitor the content. Reporter and there are dozens of other apps just like it, featuring powerful encryption Law Enforcement cant crack. That is a big problem. We have to grapple with it. Reporter fbi director james comey revealed wednesday that one of the two men who tried to attack a garland, texas, Conference Center in may communicated with an overseas terrorist 109 times that morning. And to this day, i cant tell you what he said with that terrorist, 109 times the morning of that att
Critical condition after a scaffolding co lapse it happened around 3 30eve s afternoon on tracy place. Seimven men fell 45 feet. They wero taken to hackensack univer ty medical center. There is no word on what caused the collapse. A sentencing hearing. Almost everybody, including the judge wlt sorry they hhd to send a man to jail for murder. The man was sentenced for killing his onetime boy scout leader who he accused of repeatedly sexually abusing him when he was a child. Brian thompson was in the courtroom to see it all. Brian . Reporter he says he already spent three and a half years in jail, chuck, accused of the murder and even after pleading shilty last summer, awaiting sentencing of the former sheriffs officer. He will be in prison for life because of the sexual abuse he suffered. He not only stole my lived my whole life. Reporter his family in tears behind him. He learned he will spend at least one more y r in prison for killing a former sheriff officer, boy scout leader and ra
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