wtf?! Obama sides with Cameron on encryption!

[remixedcat]

 

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/16/obama-sides-with-cameron-in-encryption-fight/

 

US President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) in Arlington, Virginia, USA, 13 January 2015. EPA/Kristoffer Tripplaar / POOL

President Barack Obama said Friday that police and spies should not be locked out of encrypted smartphones and messaging apps, taking his first public stance in a simmering battle over private communications in the digital age.

Apple, Google GOOGL +1.28% and Facebook FB +1.53% have introduced encrypted products in the past half year that the companies say they could not unscramble, even if faced with a search warrant. That

[seta-san]

too bad i guess?

[spenser.d]

How would you propose governments gather Intel on those that would harm us? Magic? I'm not saying his solution is the best one, but he's got a valid problem to solve.

[Torolol]

[Aergan]

If there's a way of bypassing security, an unauthorised party will find a way in also.

[Sir Topham Hatt]

While I don't like the thought of the government "spying" on me, it's highly unlikely they will do.

That is the price to pay for a safer world.

 

Otherwise you may as well not bother with your ESTA America, and let any one and everyone in to kill and terrorise.

[Anibal P]

While I don't like the thought of the government "spying" on me, it's highly unlikely they will do.

That is the price to pay for a safer world.

 

Otherwise you may as well not bother with your ESTA America, and let any one and everyone in to kill and terrorise.

 

This has nothing to do with "fighting" terrorism, no matter what Obama or Cameron say, this is about government intrusions into your personal info, you know, nanny state and all that nonsense the Left here loves so much, and what you Brits have also 

[DocM]

And yet they just caught up an Ohio new convert on jihad who was going to shoot and blow up Congress because of a trapped IM.

[MightyJordan]

This has nothing to do with "fighting" terrorism, no matter what Obama or Cameron say, this is about government intrusions into your personal info, you know, nanny state and all that nonsense the Left here loves so much, and what you Brits have also

That happens on both sides of the one-dimensional political spectrum, and for the record, since you mentioned the UK, our four biggest political parties - Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP - are all right-wing authoritarians (with Labour & the Lib Dems pretending to be left-wing and UKIP pretending to be libertarian).

[daorbed9]

If there's a way in or out, secure or not, an unauthorised party will find a way in also.

 

FTFY

[+Eternal Tempest MVC]

Knowing there's a back door just ensure's that eventually (not if) hackers will find a back door. 

 

There's enough of flaws in code you don't need to make back door's, some will show up on there own eventually. 

[Co-ords]

Only solution, don't use any form of electronic device to store sensitive data. 

[+Warwagon MVC]

It will make it illegal for companies who encrypt not to include a back door.

 

Do you think terrorists give a ###### about what's legal and what's not?

 

They will just create their own encrypted form of communication that doesn't have a back door, regardless if it's illegal or not.

 

So to summarize.

 

The honest person using these encryption programs will now have their data eventually broken into by hackers using the backdoor the government mandated that they put in.

 

The terrorists will go right along with their business using their own software.

[Intersect]

Only solution, don't use any form of electronic device to store sensitive data. 

Yeep! but soon enough they will want carbon copys of ever single thought you put on paper./s

[DocM]

Knowing there's a back door just ensure's that eventually (not if) hackers will find a back door.

There's enough of flaws in code you don't need to make back door's, some will show up on there own eventually.

No need for device level back door code, NSA taps directly into the carriers fiber lines, and sometimes undersea cables. At AT&T they have a facility called Room 641A where things happen.

Look up Hepting vs AT&T, a case which was dismissed after FISA Amendments Act was passed to give the carriers retroactive immunity from privacy lawsuits.

[Torolol]

yeah, you could spots any companies that in bed with big brother when such companies having some form of immunity from lawsuits.