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Re:The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's ph... by josefresco on Friday April 06, 2018 @10:20AM (#16773402)
Like phone taps, electronic bugs and good old fashion in-person surveillance? How is that "dark" exactly? I expect privacy when I'm in my home, and on the telephone - did/do the FBI consider these off limits? They don't obviously, but how is this different?
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Re:The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's ph... by Slansitartop on Friday April 06, 2018 @11:06AM (#16773782)
> Like phone taps, electronic bugs and good old fashion in-person surveillance? How is that "dark" exactly?

There was a time even before telephones and electronics.

I'm much more comfortable with law enforcement having to go back to using electronic bugs, in-person surveillance, and physical evidence gathering. Those things don't scale and don't have the security implications of their desired backdoors.

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Re:The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's ph... by josefresco on Friday April 06, 2018 @11:36AM (#16774030)
> There was a time even before telephones and electronics.

Requiring law enforcement to use "pre electricity" technology only to catch thieves who are using cutting edge technology is incredibly naive.

I can understand the worry about scaling specifically, but talk about "handcuffing" law enforcement! Also, since phone-taps are scalable, they'd have to drop that too - which would leave them with quite a toolset /s

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