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Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS

HughPickens.com writes: The NYT reports that Hillary Clinton spoke at the Brookings Institution's annual Saban Forum on Sunday and said that the Islamic State had become "the most effective recruiter in the world" and that the only solution is to engage American technology companies in blocking or taking down militants' websites, videos and encrypted communications. "We need to put the great disrupters at work at disrupting ISIS. We need Silicon Valley not to view government as its adversary. We need to challenge our best minds in the private sector and work with our best minds in the public sector to develop solutions that would both keep us safe and protect our privacy," said Clinton. "We should take the concerns of law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals seriously. They have warned that impenetrable encryption may prevent them from accessing terrorist communications and preventing a future attack. On the other hand we know there are legitimate concerns about government intrusion, network security, and creating new vulnerabilities that bad actors can and would exploit."

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  1. Re:So let me get this straight. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you don't support my candidate, you're obviously a moron!

    Typical Slashdot forum comment.

  2. Re: "the most effective recruiter in the world" by YouGotTobeKidding · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Errr...9/11 was done by Musi' terrorists you idjiot. As for Pear Harbour....the Japanese attacked a military base. They didn't say try and bomb Hawaii so Im not sure where your thought process went off the rails with this one either. Of course this is probably giving you too much credit as you probably saw that reply on facebook and are now regurgitating it here.