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You're right, of course, but this is the kind of "Fox News" style attitude that is causing me such angst. No one in this article or in the White House is sugge
by diminoten 12y ago
You're right, of course, but this is the kind of "Fox News" style attitude that is causing me such angst. No one in this article or in the White House is suggesting Silicon Valley build crypto software that lets the US, but not any other country, view the plaintext contents. Why bring it up like they are?
Some idiots in some isolated buildings in Virginia might be saying that, but the government employs 10 million or more people. This outreach is positive. That backdooring is the problem, not this outreach.
It's a complicated issue -- HN's tactic of acting like children and putting their collective fingers in their ears when adults try to solve the real problem is getting on my nerves.
I just expect more from folks who claim to be among the best and brightest of Silicon Valley -- these conspiracy-level comments that pervade every single submission about the US government and crypto/privacy kill any real conversations before they can get started.
- drivingmenuts 12y ago"One proposal, by Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, is to develop a split-key system in which companies hold half and the government, or some outside agent, holds the other half of the key to unlock encrypted communications. The two would be put together only with approval of a court. But many computer security experts reject that idea, saying it would leave too much room for theft and would motivate other governments to require the same."