FBI Announces Post-Election Attack on Encryption

Re:FBI Announces Post-Election Attack on Encryption by tptacek on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @08:13AM (#12435359)

This appears to be an extraordinarily misleading reframing of a story AP ran last week:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7d57f576e3f74b6ca4cd3436fbebf...

In particular: Comey was lamenting (albeit weakly) that the conversation had "dipped below public consciousness", and his plans where to return it there.

Heavily editorialized pieces can be fine when they do their own reporting. But "The Dash Times" doesn't seem to have done that; rather, they seem to be refocusing other pieces --- and not entirely honestly --- in order to generate rageviews.

(I am, of course, foursquare against key escrow).

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Re:FBI Announces Post-Election Attack on Encryption by nkobeissi on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @08:31AM (#12435455)

Ugh, thank your for posting this, I opened up the comments section to post exactly the same thing. It's incredibly annoying how misleading this article is. I don't know what the HN rules are for dealing with things like this.

It seems anything that links back to the "World Socialist Website" is just a waste of everyone's time.

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Re:FBI Announces Post-Election Attack on Encryption by mattmaroon on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @08:23AM (#12435411)

That article seemed so suspect that I came and checked the comments.

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Re:FBI Announces Post-Election Attack on Encryption by cheap1 on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @08:29AM (#12435441)

There should be an app to blacklist people with misleading headlines.

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