As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security

Re:As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between p... by staunch on Saturday April 11, 2015 @05:20PM (#9360892)

> “I don’t want a back door,” Rogers, the director of the nation’s top electronic spy agency, said during a speech at Princeton University, using a tech industry term for covert measures to bypass device security. “I want a front door. And I want the front door to have multiple locks. Big locks.”

This kind of Orwellian doublespeak coming from officials in power should give all sane people pause.

But, even if our right to privacy was not enshrined in the Fourth Amendment, it would not be possible for any government to have their intrusion into our private lives enforced in the long term. Computers have the means to afford people true privacy and they will have it, without respect to those who would deny it.

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Re:As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between p... by MichaelGG on Saturday April 11, 2015 @06:13PM (#9361056)

Long term? Smaller and cheaper devices means people are even more easily spied upon. Privacy must be handled as a sacred law, because technology will blow past it. We simply leak too much information as a matter of physics.

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Re:As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between p... by eternalban on Saturday April 11, 2015 @09:39PM (#9361665)

> Privacy must be handled as a sacred law

Fully agree with this. Technology is merely an amplifying factor here. If a society is healthy, then applications of technologies of the day are non-issues.

Just keep in mind that 1776 would not have been a meaningful year if the founders could not even "assemble" and discuss legitimate grievances without fear of being subject to misuse of state power. This is why we have a 4th amendment.

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Re:As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between p... by anonymousab on Saturday April 11, 2015 @07:01PM (#9361175)

>Computers have the means to afford people true privacy

Computers whose design and construction, from end to end, are fully subject to the tampering of the people trying to deny said privacy?

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Re:As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between p... by eternalban on Saturday April 11, 2015 @05:56PM (#9361001)

Consider the software on "your" machine as a mobile agent running on a potentially hostile platform. Now please tell me again how "Computers have the means to afford people true privacy and they will have it, without respect to those who would deny it."

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