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CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices
According to a story at The Guardian passed on by an anonymous reader, The CIA led sophisticated intelligence agency efforts to undermine the encryption used in Apple phones, as well as insert secret surveillance back doors into apps, top-secret documents published by the Intercept online news site have revealed. he newly disclosed documents from the National Security Agency's internal systems show surveillance methods were presented at its secret annual conference, known as the "jamboree."
The NSA is no more the enemy than the IRS or any other government agency that will keep information on us. Used with the best possible intentions, the NSA is no more threatening than the fire department. With the wrong intentions, even the fire department becomes nefarious.
The very act of having an nationalized health care system would put as much personal information in the hands of the US Government any random NSA snoop of Wikipedia or break in on someone's mobile would. Yet, for understandable reasons, no one really complains much about that. Sure there are "privacy laws" and "health care regulations". Like that would stop anyone who had the power and the capabilities.
Privacy is dead. Perhaps it never really existed except as a capability gap between what we do and what could be tracked. It's time we got used to that and acted accordingly.