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The NSA Wants Tech Companies To Give It "Front Door" Access To Encrypted Data
An anonymous reader writes The National Security Agency is embroiled in a battle with tech companies over access to encrypted data that would allow it to spy (more easily) on millions of Americans and international citizens. Last month, companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple urged the Obama administration to put an end to the NSA's bulk collection of metadata. "National Security Agency officials are considering a range of options to ensure their surveillance efforts aren't stymied by the growing use of encryption, particularly in smartphones. Key among the solutions, according to The Washington Post, might be a requirement that technology companies create a digital key that can open any locked device to obtain text messages or other content, but divide the key into pieces so no one group could use it without the cooperation of other parties."
Hell, I gave up unencrypted evidence that was left on my pc for 10 years by my ex wife about a person that works in "Blood Money" before the pricks killed my father, and they did fuckall about it. They want access only to justify a budget, period, they don't really give a fuck about anything else.
Ist der Ruf erst mal ruiniert, lebt sich's völlig ungeniert.
It loses a bit in translation, but essentially the meaning is "once your reputation is ruined, you can as well stop having any shame".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yep. We have our reality TV, March Madness, the Super Bowl, the World Series (heck, professional sports in general), lotteries, celebrity worship, and so on and so on. There are already plenty of distractions to keep the American public from concentrating on, or even learning about, how their freedom has been taken away from them.
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