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Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption
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.
That sounds like a threat... "If you make encryption, we won't bother with protecting civil liberties any more."
I would vote for Donald Trump before voting for Jeb based on this issue.
Collecting "meta-data" (really just data) about the context of people's phone calls is no different than collecting information on what library books people are checking out (which IS protected).
It's a serious invasion of privacy.
Is there a candidate who understands this?
Besides being an asshat in general, this is one more reason not to vote for him.
Which other candidates share this view?
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It seems like every time this guy opens his mouth he makes another mistake. Trump is right about one thing - Bush is a low energy candidate. This guy looks like he has been dragged kicking and screaming into this campaign. He has little interest and fewer ideas. Anyone that is against encryption and in favor of expanding the Patriot Act won't get my vote. Time to hang it up Jeb.
As a Republican, his views on encryption and the Patriot Act are not reconciliable with mine. I can scratch him off the ridiculously long list.
What that said, it's pretty hard to get any politician not named Donald to truly speak his mind. Thanks, Gov...
how many people on the left are calling for increased government surveillance?
Well, lets see. The top "man" on the left is certainly doing it. And he really got pissed when the patriot Snowden revealed what his administration was doing. And his party seems to be behind him (in both this and the destruction of American ideals in plenty of other ways). So all in all I would say most of them.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
As a non-usian I can honestly say the term makes a lot more sense than democrat. Not only *is* the US a republic, but besides having a democratically elected republic, it's not a real democracy. And, rightfully so. A true democracy would be terrible. After all, a democracy can be two wolf and a sheep deciding what to have for supper.
To put "the republicans" more in line with what every other country in the world calls that party: they are conservative. Conservatives, free from corruption, are for small government. They prioritize tradition over progressive ideas, saving over spending, and the free market over social bureaucracy.
The world needs more conservatism. The problem is that a proclivity towards private enterprise makes them easy targets for corruption. This is precisely why we need to keep the government's impact and their ability to monetize self interest as small as possible. The US (and others) political system has done a terrible job of this so far. A good start would be to remove corporate contributions to political campaigns.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
no one would believe you if you went back in time and said that reagan and bush-2 would be president.
"an actor? president? you're making that up!"
(what movie was that from? doesn't matter.)
point is, with the true choice of leaders NOT being in the hands of the voters, anything's possible. if the hidden unseen rulers choose idiot-A or idiot-B, that's what we get. what: you thought we had a SAY in things? oh, how cute.
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Can't we say that the same reasons behind the constitutional right to bear arms can be applied to a right to use encryption?
Isn't encryption already considered a "weapon" by the Pentagon?
how many people on the left are calling for increased government surveillance?
Clinton was in the White House the last time the US government tried to eliminate encryption.
Besides, the left love government surveillance, so long as they're in charge. Look at... any communist society in the 20th century.
Apparently, you don't realize that congresspeople can manipulate the laws they're voting on by rewriting them.
That's a bit more than just a yea/nay/dunno.
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Sorry, but it is socialism that caused Greece to fail, not capitalism. They have , as Thacher once opined, finally "run out of other people's money". And if you look around, the stench of failure around socialistic economies is growing. AND YET people like you seem to think it is all "republican's fault"
Sorry, but the (R) and (D) parties are just taking turns slowly moving us to the failed socialism, just slower or faster depending on party.
It is interesting that you think that failures like Greece aren't because of runaway socialism. Maybe, you think "with a little tweaking, it might work next time"
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