Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year

blottsie writes with this story from The Daily Dot that the President met with encryption advocates on Thursday and is expected to make a statement on his official stance before the end of the year. From the story: "The Obama administration plans to clarify its stance on strong encryption before Washington shuts down for the holidays. Administration officials met Thursday with the civil-society groups behind a petition urging the White House to back strong, end-to-end encryption over the objections of some law-enforcement and intelligence professionals. Kevin Bankston, director of New America's Open Technology Institute and the coalition's organizer, told the Daily Dot that it was a 'very hopeful meeting.'"

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Re:If he says its OK

[Joce640k]

According to the Snowdon leaks, they're tapped into just about everything. They've also probably gotten into Intel chips to weaken the RNG, etc. (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/surreptitiously.html)

They've got the budget to waste time/resources. You only have to crack a communications system once, after that you can read ALL the messages with no manpower needed.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but there's just too much evidence to think they aren't doing anything they can possibly do to set up a spying network. What do they use it for? I dunno, but it's definitely there.