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I'm sorry but this article is not only stupid beyond belief, it was written by the same prosecutor who prosecuted the Sergey Aleynikov case, obviously a zealous
by joesmo 11y ago
I'm sorry but this article is not only stupid beyond belief, it was written by the same prosecutor who prosecuted the Sergey Aleynikov case, obviously a zealous idiot. It shows he knows nothing about encryption ... or the law for that matter. This is a matter of civil liberties. Dead people were once alive and had civil liberties. But instead, this case is the exception rather than the rule. In every other case where authorities could not search the phone, justice was served (it's called the 4th Amendment, something Vance knows nothing about).
To have rights, you accept the slight increase in criminality that comes along with that. My right not to be unlawfully searched does indeed let some criminals get away because the cops can't search them. My right to privacy does indeed let some people get away with murder because the cops can't search my phone. That's the price and risk I take to have any civil liberties at all. Of course, someone like Vance who wants to remove civil liberties altogether (from this article), cannot possibly be expected to understand such an idea.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoVance is truly a scumbag (I hope there's an exception to HN's name-calling rules relating to people like him). You mention Aleynikov. Here's what Vance is doing[1]: An ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer who twice won reversal of guilty verdicts for taking the firm’s high-frequency trading code when he left for another job isn’t yet in the clear as prosecutors press an appeal. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will challenge the dismissal of charges against Sergey Aleynikov, whose saga helped inspire Michael Lewis’s “Flash Boys,” Joan Vollero, a spokeswoman for prosecutors, said Monday. Whatever anyone's opinion on the original merits of that case, the sheer vindictiveness of the prosecutor is appalling. A more likely explanation is that he's in thrall to Goldman Sachs. [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-27/aleynikov-prosecutor-will-appeal-dismissal-of-state-charges http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-27/aleynikov-...