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The economic and security impacts of mandating a back doors in phones go far beyond what the President realizes. Once he sees that he'll change his mind. Howe

The economic and security impacts of mandating a back doors in phones go far beyond what the President realizes. Once he sees that he'll change his mind. However, a lot of damage has been done in that law enforcement believes they could get access to data if only us technology wizards would stop being lazy and do some work for them. Aside from the compelled speech argument, on balance, we are not more secure with back doors, we are less secure. So long as law enforcement does not understand this, they will not be effective at their jobs, and they will point the finger at technologists in future terrorist attacks. Even if law enforcement officers do not point the finger, they've already convinced so much of the public that it is the technologists' fault. We need to continue educating each other on how technology works. Seek public figures and ask them to support our cause. This could go on for years, potentially coming up during every terrorist attack.

saiya-jin 11y ago
don't underestimate those power hungry guys up there, we can accuse them of many things, but not for being stupid...
- studentrob 11y ago
  Don't be so sure. We have very little tech representation in the White House. We only have a CTO as an advisor, and a Digital Services team. The DS team is not in an advisory role. They are focused on fixing broken government tech. We don't even have any tech journalists in the Press briefing room to bring further transparency. In the daily White House Press Briefing on Monday, the 14th, which is the one following Obama's remarks at SXSW, nobody asked any questions about what he said. I'd like to see us get a tech journalist in there. Megan Smith is CTO of the United States. She is calling for more computer security experts to join her at the White House [1]. > The thrust of Obama's remarks, said Smith, was "making sure that the tech communities are understanding the challenges that law enforcement and their colleagues face so that they're conscious as they're thinking through this." > So is this still an open policy-making process? "Yes," said Smith. And like others involving "complicated stuff," there's a wide range of voices at the table — including hers. To Smith, the public policy challenges and possibilities raised by the broad range of digital security issues echos the topic she was in Austin to highlight: the need to draw smart technologists to government service. In other words, the CTO is outnumbered at the table in discussions about encryption. I'd also like to see her produce meeting minutes for discussions about encryption, or some further transparency. The Digital Services team's self stated founding goal was to increase transparency of our government. However, on this encryption issue, they and Megan Smith have been too opaque. We need more details on what they are talking about. They are our public servants. [1] http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-tech/2016/03/us-cto-smith-on-encryption-were-still-in-the-middle-of-that-conversation-security-worries-for-the-internet-of-things-scoop-fcc-gets-open-internet-complaints-over-t-mobiles-binge-on-213214 http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-tech/2016/03/us-ct...
gremlinsinc 11y ago
Would be funny if Obama pushes for backdoors - then gets what he wants - then 2 years later gets his iphone hacked because of said backdoor.

saiya-jin 11y ago

don't underestimate those power hungry guys up there, we can accuse them of many things, but not for being stupid...

studentrob 11y ago
Don't be so sure. We have very little tech representation in the White House. We only have a CTO as an advisor, and a Digital Services team. The DS team is not in an advisory role. They are focused on fixing broken government tech. We don't even have any tech journalists in the Press briefing room to bring further transparency. In the daily White House Press Briefing on Monday, the 14th, which is the one following Obama's remarks at SXSW, nobody asked any questions about what he said. I'd like to see us get a tech journalist in there. Megan Smith is CTO of the United States. She is calling for more computer security experts to join her at the White House [1]. > The thrust of Obama's remarks, said Smith, was "making sure that the tech communities are understanding the challenges that law enforcement and their colleagues face so that they're conscious as they're thinking through this." > So is this still an open policy-making process? "Yes," said Smith. And like others involving "complicated stuff," there's a wide range of voices at the table — including hers. To Smith, the public policy challenges and possibilities raised by the broad range of digital security issues echos the topic she was in Austin to highlight: the need to draw smart technologists to government service. In other words, the CTO is outnumbered at the table in discussions about encryption. I'd also like to see her produce meeting minutes for discussions about encryption, or some further transparency. The Digital Services team's self stated founding goal was to increase transparency of our government. However, on this encryption issue, they and Megan Smith have been too opaque. We need more details on what they are talking about. They are our public servants. [1] http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-tech/2016/03/us-cto-smith-on-encryption-were-still-in-the-middle-of-that-conversation-security-worries-for-the-internet-of-things-scoop-fcc-gets-open-internet-complaints-over-t-mobiles-binge-on-213214 http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-tech/2016/03/us-ct...

gremlinsinc 11y ago

Would be funny if Obama pushes for backdoors - then gets what he wants - then 2 years later gets his iphone hacked because of said backdoor.