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This is the same kind of government we're expected to trust with private keys and source code from companies like Apple and Google. Of course there's been a lon

This is the same kind of government we're expected to trust with private keys and source code from companies like Apple and Google. Of course there's been a long history of government not knowing how to secure IT infrastructure, including a data leak that exposed the identities of it's own undercover spies: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/technology/china-opm-hack-us-spies/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/technology/china-opm-hack-us....

joering2 11y ago
In the latest Testimony, Comey tried to brush-off Apple's statements saying that it is not Apple's business or place to decide or judge whether or not FBI is doing good job keeping citizen's data safe. I cannot imagine statement more de-attached from reality than that. If the companies like Apple who sells millions of products to customers and rely on customer's trust are not a good indication or source of information whether the Gov is doing good job, then I don't know who is... "We the People".... you'd think.
- markdown 11y ago
  They don't like the concept of corporate personhood when it doesn't suit them.
  - taneq 11y ago
    I don't think they're real big on the concept of personhood in any sense when it doesn't suit them.
  - guelo 11y ago
    I'd rather we be precise in these type of conversations instead of using the general 'they'. Corporate personhood was a decision by the supreme court, a separate branch of government than the FBI. The FBI doesn't seem to like the Bill of Rights whether it applies to people or corporations.
- asquabventured 11y ago
  FBI wasn't responsible for the data being stolen by China, that was OPM[1], a completely separate and NON-security focused branch of government. From my point of view, whenever "we the people" demand more "answers/solutions" from the government, what ends up happening is more bureaucracy that ends up failing us all. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Personnel_Management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Person...

joering2 11y ago

In the latest Testimony, Comey tried to brush-off Apple's statements saying that it is not Apple's business or place to decide or judge whether or not FBI is doing good job keeping citizen's data safe. I cannot imagine statement more de-attached from reality than that. If the companies like Apple who sells millions of products to customers and rely on customer's trust are not a good indication or source of information whether the Gov is doing good job, then I don't know who is... "We the People".... you'd think.

markdown 11y ago
They don't like the concept of corporate personhood when it doesn't suit them.
- taneq 11y ago
  I don't think they're real big on the concept of personhood in any sense when it doesn't suit them.
- guelo 11y ago
  I'd rather we be precise in these type of conversations instead of using the general 'they'. Corporate personhood was a decision by the supreme court, a separate branch of government than the FBI. The FBI doesn't seem to like the Bill of Rights whether it applies to people or corporations.
asquabventured 11y ago
FBI wasn't responsible for the data being stolen by China, that was OPM[1], a completely separate and NON-security focused branch of government. From my point of view, whenever "we the people" demand more "answers/solutions" from the government, what ends up happening is more bureaucracy that ends up failing us all. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Personnel_Management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Person...