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Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-so-cryptic-statements dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Presidential candidate Jeb Bush has called on tech companies to form a more "cooperative" arrangement with intelligence agencies. During a speech in South Carolina, Bush made clear his opinion on encryption: "If you create encryption, it makes it harder for the American government to do its job — while protecting civil liberties — to make sure that evildoers aren't in our midst." He also indicated he felt the recent scaling back of the Patriot Act went too far. Bush says he hasn't seen any indication the bulk collection of phone metadata violated anyone's civil liberties.

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  1. Re:buh, bye by Spy+Handler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jeb is gonna want some kind of a cabinet position in the Trump administration, so he better start catching up on past episodes of The Apprentice.

  2. Re:Privacy is a civil liberty, Jeb by Fire_Wraith · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Those are some very nice civil liberties you have there. It would be a shame if anything were to 'happen' to them."

  3. Bad timing ... by techstar25 · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are (reportedly) 10,000 govt employees in the Ashley Madison hack that would probably disagree with you, Jeb.

  4. Jeb unveils plan do destroy US tech economy by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2016! YEEEEEEHAAAAWWWWWW MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!

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    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff