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What are we to make of these sorts of comments from Obama and Feinstein? It seems like there is strong backing by certain political interests to make it imposs
by ickwabe 11y ago
What are we to make of these sorts of comments from Obama and Feinstein? It seems like there is strong backing by certain political interests to make it impossible for the average phone user to encrypt their own devices in such a way that the providers cannot access certain data. This dove-tails nicely with what some consider a war on general computing...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-obama-idUSKCN0WD2KV http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-obama-idU...
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/262658-feinstein-vows-to-offer-encryption-piercing-bill http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/262658-feinstein-vow...
- chongli 11y agoThe Obama Administration simply will not throw their own (the FBI) under the bus. Fortunately for us the Democrats do not control congress so Obama is unlikely to get his wish here.
- intrasight 11y agoNor is Obama's position that of the larger Democrat party.
- progressive_dad 11y agoWell that's simply because they don't know any better. If they were privy to the security and policy briefings Obama received then they would SURELY support the president and senator Feinstein in securing their own liberty and freedom. All they would have to do is submit a FOIA request and wait 10 years...
- barney54 11y agoThe Republicans aren't necessarily better, but they are anti-Obama which helps on this issue.
- colejohnson66 11y agoAnti-Obama and (for I'd assume a good number) anti-encryption (in the form of pro-FBI)
- dragonwriter 11y agoNot really. The Republicans were for pervasive surveillance and for the national security state for a long time before Obama, and they remain that way now. They may use details of the present controversy to take partisan political shots at the Obama Administration, but, as a party, there's probably more support for government power in this area in the Republican Party than in the Democratic Party.
- WalterBright 11y agoNot all the Republicans. Cruz has actively opposed the surveillance state: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/10/ted-cruz-nsa-surveillance-san-bernardino http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/10/ted-cruz-nsa-...
- gpvos 11y agoHe's an outlier, if not an extremist (seen from the standpoint of the average Republican politician).
- WalterBright 11y agoCruz is 2nd in the polls behind Trump. Obviously quite a few Republicans support him.
- tremon 11y agoAren't you confusing republican politicians with republican voters here?
- dragonwriter 11y agoI was talking the parties as parties (and, particular, as parties-in-government rather than parties-in-the-electorate). But id be cautious about drawing conclusions about Cruz: he is a first term Senator who has spent his whole time in office in the Congressional majority with the opposing party in the White House -- members of either party seem more opposed to the surveillance state (and expansive executive powers generally) when they are in the legislative majority and the other party controls the executive. That's even true, though perhaps less so, without the legislative majority. A lot of Democrats who don't look like solid opponents of surveillance now would if you considered only their relationship cord during the George W. Bush administration.