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The thing that annoys me the most about the government's moronic handling of this whole phone, data, encryption, privacy, etc. issue is that if they had not bee
by wahsd 11y ago
The thing that annoys me the most about the government's moronic handling of this whole phone, data, encryption, privacy, etc. issue is that if they had not been fucking around and abused their powers, not allowed the devil Bush and Cheney to drag America into the depths of authoritarian purgatory, is that companies would surely not be resisting legal court orders for decryption and they would not be looking at fully encrypting data at rest and in transit. It is the grotesque abuse, gluttony, and pathetically degenerate greed of the government and the retards at all the various itel and policing agencies that are to blame for the very state they are in where they feel they need to double down on their authoritarian tactics.
- LeoNatan25 11y agoThe Obama administration has been just as draconian and authoritarian, if not more, as was the Clinton administration (within the means of technology available at the time).
- EarthLaunch 11y agoYes, this thread's discussion is reminiscent of the protests on Slashdot about encryption laws in the late 90s.
- MaysonL 11y agoAh yes, "Stop the Clipper chip!"[0] The NSA has been looking to get backdoors into telecommunications for a long time. See their tapping of all international underwater cables (and back in the 80's I heard a second-hand report that they had commissioned some high-powered scanners that could read the contents of most mail envelopes, which were positioned to read most international mail). [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip