Re:Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors
by wfo on Friday October 09, 2015 @01:17PM
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I think threatening to ban all secure communication in a psychotic unrealistic policy position and having important "serious" people like the director of the FBI push for it isn't really intended to get it codified into law, rather to elicit responses like yours -- it's designed to massively push the Overton window against privacy so that we can feel okay about how bad things currently are -- at least the insane unrealistic threats that were thrown around weren't followed through.
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Re:Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors
by simonh on Monday October 12, 2015 @06:31PM
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No, unfotrunately I think our 'security' establishment really are so divorced from reality that they think crippling encryption is a good idea. It would be nice to think that they're actualy technically competent and it's all a ploy, but the truth is depressingly mundane. They handed the Chinese government and other authoritarian states cover for demanding back doors in encrypted products on a platter, and sold out our privacy, without any clue how utterly stupid and self defeating an idea it is.