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Obama Sides with Cameron in Encryption Fight

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> He said he believes Silicon Valley companies also want to solve the problem. “They’re patriots.”

They are patriots, which is why they aren't willing to let a government trod all over people's privacy on the pretenses of preventing terrorism.

Polemical? Is it plausible that we may not be able to reduce entities to singular values on a projected metric?

Might it be “unpatriotic” to hide funding offshore that would otherwise be intended for education, medical, space exploration, food stamps, and other public endeavours[1]?

[1] Well aware of the fuzziness of these issues. That is my point; reducing complex machinations down to “good” and “bad” without consideration of the macro level view within a culture is dangerous.

How many times are we going to go through this song and dance? All the evidence that we have shows that there is no such thing as a safe backdoor. Also, when have we actually had evidence of a 'plot' before it has happened, because I the ones I recall have been cases where the FBI basically entrapped a bunch of idiots.

> Also, when have we actually had evidence of a 'plot' before it has happened, because I the ones I recall have been cases where the FBI basically entrapped a bunch of idiots.

There have been lots of cases, unless of course you discount the ones that they "say" that they stopped but cannot tell us any details because of national security. I mean, we hear about those all the time!

The UK's deputy PM is a Liberal (capital L) and is opposing these new laws (although his personal approval rating is so low it is laughable).

I stopped laughing at him myself just today, when I heard him on the news and I actually mailed him to lend my support. It was such a rare and refreshing thing to hear a politician actually say this is not a good idea I was stunned into action.

Sadly he will not have a seat after our May elections and there is a half chance a right wing racist demagogue will take his place. Joys of democracy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904980

People are only reaching out to encryption from private companies because the justice department is not being kept in check when it comes to getting warrants. If he wants companies to stop incorporating high levels of encryption into their products, stop making their customers(also called citizens) feel like they need it.

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