Posted on 05/03/2016 9:32:58 AM PDT by Cyberman
It is becoming increasingly clear that Senators Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr, co-chairs of the Senate Intelligence Committee, don’t have the slightest clue about how encryption works. Good thing they’re currently pushing disastrous legislation that would force tech companies to decrypt things for law enforcement!
Today Feinstein and Burr co-authored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Encryption Without Tears,” and wow, it is bad. They have yet again demonstrated a failure to grasp even the most basic principles of technology....
Feinstein and Burr’s bill is not based in any technical reality. Companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google would have to entirely re-engineer how they encrypt user data, leaving it vulnerable to attackers in the process. No encryption expert has identified a way to allow law enforcement access to encrypted communications without also jeopardizing the security of the everyday user....
Feinstein and Burr have yet again displayed total incompetence about how encryption works at a very basic level. They show a complete disregard for how vital encryption is when it comes to protecting our data and everything we do online. Aren’t you glad they’re in charge?
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
All of these senators have advisers who go out and talk to lobbyists and get the dozen 3x5 cards for Senator “Snuffy” to talk in public. The sad truth is that they are strictly talking heads, and nothing else. They don’t know anything about terrorism, diesel cars, banks, farming, import-export law, or ethics. This is why Apple just said enough and refuses to play with these guys anymore.
One would think the NSA itself would be telling these folks that the idea is ridiculous.
This is an important topic.
I’m sure some folks in government are not clueless — but the majority are. I work with people who will always support any IT proposal if that proposal includes unicorns. Because unicorns are cool. They clearly know nothing and this does not bother them at all. They don’t think its important to know things. They think its important to be important.
They do whatever puts the most money into their personal bank accounts, or those of close family members.
Meanwhile federal employees in National Security have their computers full of child porn, but, hey, got to sift our iphones
They’re CLUELESS about anything after 1953.
Richard Burr disappoints me to no end. He DOESN’T have a clue about what he proposes and his pollyanna answers are bordering on lies: I say bordering because he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.
He has championed emr’s in 2009, that electronic rape of your medical and personal information for anyone with the remotest clearance to see.
He generally votes conservative but he burns my biscuits with crap like this.
I'll bet he's also clueless about why he's in a neck-and-neck re-election race in a red state.
They’re clueless about everything, but don’t mind ruining our lives.
“They’re CLUELESS about anything after 1953.”
Why that particular year?
I just pisked what I thought would be their most common birth year
You could fill an endless warehouse with the subjects about which our “leaders” are ignorant, and about which ordinary Americans are conversant. It’s probably one of the many factors that compels them to remain in politics for entire careers.
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