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To those who argue this submission isn't relevant for a tech audience: the Senators in this hearing are discussing backdoors and encryption right now, which is
by randomname2 11y ago
To those who argue this submission isn't relevant for a tech audience: the Senators in this hearing are discussing backdoors and encryption right now, which is pretty relevant actually, and not something we often see on the Senate floor.
- joslin01 11y agoOne of his proposed amendments is to disallow governments mandating products change their source code to allow entities access into the data (e.g., a backdoor for the NSA). So basically, allowing encryption, which would be huge.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoThat shouldn't even need to be an amendment. With a government based on an enumerated and limited set of powers (which the US government is in theory though blatantly not in practice), it should suffice to not explicitly permit them to do so.