Posted on 10/16/2014 8:59:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Apple and Google should reconsider their plans to enable encryption by default on their smartphones, and the U.S. Congress should pass a law requiring that all communication tools allow police access to user data, U.S. FBI Director James Comey said.
Comey, repeating his recent concerns about announcements from Apple and Google to offer new encryption tools on their smartphone OSes, went a step further Thursday, when he called on Congress to rewrite the 20-year-old Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
Following the past 15 months of leaks about surveillance at the U.S. National Security Agency, the pendulum of public opinion has swung too far away from law enforcement’s needs, Comey said in a speech at the Brookings Institution.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
Fine director. And give us the keys to your home too while you’re at it.
Since you don’t believe in our privacy, F yours.
Decrypt this:
9 4g8 8 ae8 ncO 94 aa v ggf zbviw gaa h9law a si ,etis 39&3
Triple encrypted. Unique seed. 2056-bit.
I bet I know almost exactly what it says, and at least three words are unflattering curse words.
The bloated Fedgov can’t stand the thought that there is anything not under its control. No thought, no movement, nothing, should be outside its control by its own definition. Slavery is freedom.
Everything inside the state, nothing outside.
Benito Mussolini lives
Back for the Clipper Chip, round 2. Dear FBI: GFY. You have proven you can’t be trusted with power.
Or else, at the very least, you would arrest Jon Corzine, among many other criminals. But you don’t - which mean you act at the whim of your masters, rather than from any sort of Law Enforcement mission, which is your ostensible purpose for opposing this encryption.
Did you hear about this on “conservative” talk radio today?
Fox News?
Nope. Ebola gets the ratings. Our enslavement doesn’t matter.
If they want our records, let them come to us with a valid search warrant. Snooping around any other way is simply wrong and unconstitutional.
Fu
Snowden 2020! (Assuming the Hildebeest or similar wins in 2016).
Anybody want to take this one? Mr. Madison? Mr. Jefferson? Mr. Paine?
Um, is sealing letters going to be illegal now too? If not, how can they justify this “needing” to be different? If so, how can they justify the change vs. when they knew their place?
Uh.....yeah? Duh? (not you Ben)
An evil government can infringe on my rights far more efficiently and far more thoroughly and with far less recourse on my part than can an evil guy. I'll "take my chances", thank you, if you insist on viewing it that way.
Besides, the more inescapable punishment for "bad guys" is, and the less dependent on the consent of his fellow citizens, the more likely the powers that be will define "bad" in a way I don't agree with anyway. Them needing the willing cooperation of the populace in law enforcement is a good thing.
Supporters of big and Ever Bigger government assure us that “strong laws” will protect our privacy. If there is one thing that Snowden showed, it was that government will always exempt government. The only way to ensure that my persons and papers have privacy is for me to have the means to ensure they are private and that includes preventing government from having the means to violate my privacy.
But this raises a bigger issue:
One of the roots of such wasteful, foolish, thuggish, and tyrannous government is the ease with which it can create almost unlimited amounts of money out of thin air. Near-infinite money buys near-infinite government, and a bureaucracy that is generously funded can entertain an open-ended dream about how to expand its realm.
Every day more people are coming to the judgment that a carefully organized effort to repair the constitution via the States’ power to propose and ratify amendments has less risk to our liberty and prosperity than the present trajectory of the federal government and especially the federal bureaucracy.
The first order of business of an Article V Convention must be to limit government’s ability to create and spend near-infinite amounts of money.
Its the best of all worlds for the govt: Let the bad guys in then claim you need to surveil everyone to get them. Whats not to like for the power hungry statist? There are plenty of boot lickers on this forum who would agree...its for our own safety you know and we should always obey.
This is window dressing to cover the fact that they already have access to our communications. Privacy exists nowhere anymore.
That’s pre-9/11 thinking. Its a different world now, and were in a fight to the death with the Moose-limbs.
“Darkness has come”
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