Just a brief note for those coming late to this thread that this originally pointed to (and made it to the frontpage as) [1], which is a discussion of only the

Just a brief note for those coming late to this thread that this originally pointed to (and made it to the frontpage as) [1], which is a discussion of only the part of this speech by Comey which pertains to encryption and privacy, and which starts with "A brief word, because I can’t resist, to talk about encryption", which you can grep for. A basic summary, not using the same words: They want backdoors, and they propose that still counts as 'strong encryption', only, well, with a backdoor. Also, they intend to make a push for this next year. [1]: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/05/encr-s05.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/05/encr-s05.html