http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-director-if-apple-and-google-wont-decrypt-phones-well-force-them-to
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This is getting hilariously ridiculous.
Every week, the leader of the FBI sounds more and more like a comic book supervillian.
This is getting hilariously ridiculous."It might be time to ask: Where are we, as a society? Are we no longer a country governed by the rule of law, where no one is above or beyond that law?," he said, without irony. "Are we so mistrustful of government-and of law enforcement-that we are willing to let bad guys walk away?"
"Congress might have to force this on companies," he said. "Maybe they'll take the hint and do it themselves."
Damn straight. I may have a tin foil hat on now (actually I'd have a safe lead lined one) but this seems like a joke to convince people that they can trust Google and the rest with whatever encryption methods are default on these phones. I mean what are they even using? AES 256? I'm sure the FBI has the ability to break that...or they'll have to beg their buddies the CIA or NSA. Either way, the only real reason he's saying this is because it will create a slight inconvenience for them. But, if they really want your info they'll break in when you have it turned on and connected to something.
I fixed it for you
Backdoors are built into Windows and as such the NSA doesn't need MS to provide them; they just wish MS would tell them of the backdoors so they didn't have to find them.Originally Posted by aweir
It IS Orwellian. When are we going to stop living in denial???
"Nothing to fear, nothing to hide".
Truecrypt has been declared as not being secured, and there has been a security audit going on for quite some yet, they refuse to disclose what this security risk supposedly is.
Meanwhile Microsoft wants you to use their home-brew encryption, and oh yeah, the NSA is hounding at them to put a backdoor in Windows.
So lets see. Truecrypt: open-source (not really, but close enough) can be audited by *anyone* yet is has NEVER been audited successfully yet. Mysteriously a "Security issue" is found that they will NOT disclose.
And being open source, planting a backdoor would be difficult.
And in the other corner, we have Bitlocker, a proprietary software, and may-or-may-not already have a backdoor...propably not considering, but it is being shoved down our throats and the NSA would LOVE to get it's hand in Microsoft's pants.
US is probably bigger but China is probably more focused. The US has the whole "catch everything sort it out later" mantra while China seems to have a "these are the targets catch and follow only what connects to them to keep focus".
pretty sure banks and corporations have more to lose by banning encryption than regular people.
he looks like one too honestlyOriginally Posted by frickfrock999
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-director-if-apple-and-google-wont-decrypt-phones-well-force-them-to
This is getting hilariously ridiculous.
Every week, the leader of the FBI sounds more and more like a comic book supervillian.
There are a lot of those spare keys actually, metaphorically speaking.
It is true for now maybe. Your sentence lacks an ending - reveled/leaked, for now.