In recent months, the FBI has taken to the press and to congress to complain about how the increasingly widespread adoption of end-to-end encryption in commercial technologies like the iPhone and Whatsapp is resulting in an intelligence blackout, a process the feds call “going dark.” But three items in the news over the past few weeks make clear that the debate about encryption is only one aspect of a larger FBI campaign to expand its access to and exclusive control over huge … Continue reading The FBI is on the cusp of obtaining three extremely dangerous new powers