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Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics
mi writes Attorney General Eric Holder called it is "worrisome" that tech companies are providing default encryption on consumer electronics, adding that locking authorities out of being able to access the contents of devices puts children at risk. “It is fully possible to permit law enforcement to do its job while still adequately protecting personal privacy,” Holder said at a conference on child sexual abuse, according to a text of his prepared remarks. “When a child is in danger, law enforcement needs to be able to take every legally available step to quickly find and protect the child and to stop those that abuse children. It is worrisome to see companies thwarting our ability to do so.”
Before the digital age how did the police ever mange to protect the children?
Those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it....even if they have to force it down our throats.
Holder doesn't fail to understand it - he and his ilk are back for Round 2. They will persist until the liberty is removed, however many rounds that takes. Then they will move on to the next liberty that still stands. If they can't win at the Federal level, they will get it done at the State level (e.g. California's back door requirements for cell phones).
That's how government works; I guess your point is well-supported by the history after all.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
you are a tool of the political machine...a "useful idiot" in Marx's terms.
there is no difference between the two parties...our system is a Plutocracy.
the two party system is nothing but a circle jerk keep people distracted from understanding the true nature of it all.
never bring a twinkie to a food fight.
Bingo. This exact same argument was made in the early 1990s about the Clipper Chip and banning encryption other than Clipper/Skipjack. Since Skipjack was broken, the bad guys would have access to the LEAF (law enforcement access field), and could zero out the ones on their chips. Great for them, an uncorrectable security nightmare for anyone who chose to abide by the law.
This also brings in the US's Third Amendment. Can spyware be considered an electronic soldier? Or perhaps the Fifth Amendment about being deprived of property (spyware uses RAM/disk/network bandwidth/CPU cycles) without due process.) Micing someone's place is one thing, making them pay for being spied on is another.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Excellent point. I did a search on the definition of terrorism and found this FBI page: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/in...
The first bullet point of the domestic section reads: - "Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law"
News flash! Base jumping is accurately described as domestic terrorism. Good to know!
"Only about 100 missing-child reports each year fit the profile of a stereotypical abduction by a stranger or vague acquaintance." Those are the real kidnapping cases, and there's usually no identified suspect whose phone law enforcement could dump.
"Think of the children" Godwin's itself. It's not Reductio ad Hitlerum if Hitler *actually* said it: The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.