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FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com)
sandbagger writes: The FBI still wants backdoors into encrypted communications, it just doesn't want to call them backdoors, and it doesn't want to dictate what they should look like. Tech companies [says FBI Director James Comey] 'need' to change their business models – by selling only communications gear that enables law enforcement to access communications in unencrypted form, he says, rather than products that only the parties participating in the communication can decrypt. He also says tech companies should just accept that they would be selling less secure products.
Had you not been spying on all of us without warrants we wouldn't be encrypting our stuff. Act like the bad guy, don't be surprised when your treated like a bad guy.
Frontdoors
"We see that encryption is getting in the way of our ability to have court orders effective to gather information we need in our most important work"
So does the Fifth Amendment. What's your point? Gonna put a back door in that too? (Posting AC so the FBI trash men don't come get me.)
Changing what you call it doesn't actually change what it is. If I spend money on sex and cocaine, I will still go to jail even if I refer to it as "a good nights thrashing".
Groups like ISIS are now using their own encryption apps so there is nothing that can be done by any US tech companies prevent that. What would the point of making everything less secure be.
They want to expand PRISM, remember PRISM?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
The documents show that:
Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;
The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;
The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;
Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;
In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;
Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".
In June, the Guardian revealed that the NSA claimed to have "direct access" through the Prism program to the systems of many major internet companies, including Microsoft, Skype, Apple, Google, Facebook and Yahoo.
Blanket orders from the secret surveillance court allow these communications to be collected without an individual warrant if the NSA operative has a 51% belief that the target is not a US citizen and is not on US soil at the time. Targeting US citizens does require an individual warrant, but the NSA is able to collect Americans' communications without a warrant if the target is a foreign national located overseas.
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So all the private communications you have well the US grabbed them stuck them in giant databases to be datamined at the whim of the military complex without judicial process.
And all the companies involved knew it, and helped. Microsoft even helping remove the encryption on future version so the NSA could slurp down their data more easily.
So when you want to use Cloud Office Services, remember that your companies documents are directly available within any judicial process to the spys for the military industrial complex.
Just call it a Rearer
If people can control their own devices, and the hardware is also on their side, then it is not the FBI's choice. People can run whatever they wish.
But if we insist on buying devices that more and more treat their owners like the enemy to keep out, this becomes impossible. Even if there are some security holes to exploit to root the devices, that is beyond all but a tiny few who would be able and would bother to.
It is critical for this trend towards owner-hostile devices to be reversed, or the fight can only be lost. Already it seems 90% lost.
Every time you buy a locked down device, you are part of the problem.
We always called them call them Female Body Inspectors, but Backdoor Men is more appropriate. They don't care if you're male or female, they just want you to bend over and take it. BTW, they are trying to establish the new normal.
PlanetVulkan.com
A lot of public officials seem to think that encryption will just go away if they outlaw it.
Or maybe they think routers can automagically decrypt user messages.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
...anuses..
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May I suggest "Patriot doors".
hit this guy with a clue stick. Asshole.
There is no way to guarantee nobody but the FBI can access these "back doors", or to guarantee that the FBI will do the right thing.
The business model of the FBI needs to change.
Backdoors not descriptive enough?
How about "lubricated manholes" as a more apt description.
Capcha text is "violator", how appropriate with what the FBI want to do here.
If you want us to trust our intelligence communities with decryption capabilities in case we happen to be criminals, then we need the FBI to put MUCH better accountability in place to ensure that THEY are not doing anything criminal. BEGINNING with a reliable and INDEPENDENT commission that can be approached by whistleblowers without fear of reprisal and that has the independent power to declassify anything they believe is government action in violation of Federal Law.
Because they do things that are criminal. Like, for example, mass surveillance, parallel construction, and to some extent the entrapment they use as effectively a primary tool for big investigations.
Right now we don't have the accountability to ensure that our government isn't acting criminally. We just fucking don't. They are mostly a black box saying that nobody else should be a black box.
Maybe we could call this new scheme "key escrow". That way we can run our side of the debate just by recycling posts from ~20 years ago.
See that "Preview" button?
Comcast:
It's not a "cap", it's a "usage plan"
If Comcast were a Swiss insurance agency:
Don't think of it as "exclusive", think of it as a "custom experience".
If Comcast was the FBI:
It's not a backdoor, it's [redacted].
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
So, the FBI doesn't want to call these things "backdoors". OK, let's come up with some alternatives:
The FBI wants to install security barndoors in your software.
The FBI wants to create festering security wounds in your software.
The FBI wants to buttf*ck your software.
Which of those other euphemisms would you prefer, Mr. Comey?
and their budget will get cut. That's what happened to the team who was investigating the San Bern shooter 3 years ago.
typewriters are still made and sold; ribbons are made and still sold
In all aspects of todays world, if you are not the least bit tech savy... you are incompetent.
Remember how, back in the days, we used to download PGP from Finland because of US export restrictions? These days are coming again, with resulting renewed public interest in free software and sideloading apps outside the walled garden. As well, it's a chance for a developing country to establish an alternative Silicon Valley exporting truly secure software, even PC and mobile operating systems, worldwide. Hopefully I can move there and live like a king.
Convey to us that those who gather intelligence will respect the doctrine of the fruit of the poison tree, and refrain from using tainted evidence in building criminal cases against citizens outside of dire threats. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
A lot of people rush to Orwell references, but this seems like a genuine attempt at Newspeak to me.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Despite what most people think, it's perfectly legal to tell law enforcement to fuck off and take it with my lobbyist.
Mr Potato Head, MR POTATO HEAD
Back doors are not secrets!
FTFY
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Thanks for desperately trying to kill off what little US business still exists overseas.
He speaks like this is a fait accompli. Without any legislation that requires them to do so, no sane tech company is going to change their products in a manner which makes consumers any less likely to buy them
It's come to this now? The US agencies don't even pretend to respect the rights to privacy and freedom of expression. They are now openly asking for Orwelian features in products produced by private companies?
Are American citizens so lost that they do not see how ridiculous that sounds ? They might as well just as every citizen to spend a mandatory year in prison ...just in case they get incarcerated later in life.
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
So the FBI wants to take the French route? Breakable GSM, LTE, 3G and such, with key limits? In the news near future: "All US business secrets were stolen today with the help of carefully planted briefcases along all city centers, everywhere. Yes, everywhere. And onward to the weather! Stacy, are you being listened to enough?"
Rather than "Solving" the problem, they would rather change the Debate to "argue" they are not at Fault for Not solving the problem.
Performance Review: FBI (negative zero)
Ther are much more product ways of conducting surveying a crime scene than "Prospecting on the Possibility that some [Smart Person] but not Us, will find a way of making sense of all this data = Fail"
And Excuse is an Excuse is an Excuse.. this is ridiculous
So considering that that the us government uses nowadays mammy commercial products of the shelf itself;
Considering that other governments control access to potentially as big or bigger markets than the US one ->
Are they happy with the Chinese/Russians also reading the communications of the US government?
And they are using commercial regular stuff. By design (to save money and make certain projects even feasible) or mistake (do I need to say Clinton ' email).
Also consider that practically all the hardware for these new communications is produced outside the states. Where other governments can insist on back doors (when it quacks ... call it by it's proper name).
E.g. the German privacy watchdog has currently issued a ruling that Google Mail is a communication service and needs to provide "an automatic interface for lawful interception". If the courts let that stand (something quite realistic) and Google not being able to prove to legal standards if an account is "German", that might mean that they'll need to allow to intercept traffic on all accounts.
Great that the FBI gives governments the inspiration to what they should require from companies (including US ones).
How's "Freedom Anuses" grab you? Honestly, if it hadn't been for the Government's meddling in the 90's, all traffic on the Internet would be encrypted by now and the whole place would be much more secure. Near as I can tell, you still can't integrate PGP into a E-Mail client without the government trying to fuck you in the ass. I mean backdoor, er... freedom anus!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Investigating personal behavior should be difficult. If that means I live in a more dangerous world, so be it. Terrorism doesn't terrify me.
How do you prevent criminals et al from using it? The problem with back doors is there really isn't any way I know of to make them secure. You can't make encryption where you don't need the key to decrypt it, yet it still is secure. The back door can be obfuscated or the like, but if someone finds it then it is game over.
So even if we decide we trust the government and they have good oversight and all that, it is still leaving things open to other parties. Good encryption keeps everyone else out, that is just how it works and how it has to work.
Door Locks, Curtains, Safes, Encryption, Sealed Envelopes...
hmmmm....
Well, I have to admit that [redacted] is a good name for it.
I mean, when they [redacted] me, I definitely feel like they really [redacted] me in the [redacted]. So it's very accurate!
What's really completely ignorant of Mr. Comey is to think that if the companies making the phones stop encrypting the devices that we as individuals won't if the device doesn't by default. Is he really so full of himself that he doesn't think that we'll just encrypt it anyway?!?! Seriously, how ignorant is this man? If Apple stopped supporting encryption in iOS I'd jailbreak the sucker in a second and install encryption. If Google stopped using encryption in Android, I'd root the sucker and install encryption. Apple and Google are merely saving us the trouble of doing it ourselves. FUCK OFF!
So let's just talk data at rest on an iphone.. Apple builds a backdoor so the USA government can access all data if they physically possess the device.. Does his only impact phones sold in America?
Now for every country they are in market do they need different hardware or software.. I'm sure we can't have one master backdoor for all governments globally because no one trusts each other..
Encryption is protected speech. If you are unwilling to accept this resign and make way for someone who respects the constitution.
Britain's Parliament switched to Office 365, Microsoft's Cloud servers. Microsoft made a pretense of storing the data in Ireland (but of course the NSA was given a tap into it, just as they were given a PRISM tap into all of Microsoft's other services *worldwide*).
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240230372/Hague-reassures-MPs-on-Office-365-data-storage-as-Microsoft-ordered-to-hand-over-email-data
So now when members of Parliament draft laws that the US doesn't like, they can head it off, or undermine the politicians concerned. BEFORE the document even leaves the desk of the politicians!
GCHQ meanwhile, whose job it is to secure British Communications, signed off on this. Well at least the traitors in the agency did.
If the FBI wins the Internet would 'need' to change it's business model â" by selling absolutely nothing because purchases would be even more insecure, another way the Internet would need to change is no confidential financial or work information could be shared on the Internet, also people should just accept that they won't have any security or privacy from anyone else on the Internet.
Just call a hammer a hammer and a backdoor a backdoor.
Today I'd worry more about shortcomings in security on Chinese-made devices, but with the FBI involved it's going to be additional holes.
Meanwhile the terrorists just go on with their own ways of information exchange. It's also a huge information flood to sift through making it hard for authorities to ever figure out if something is serious or not. Even if they know they may not take action to avoid revealing their sources. Like the shootings in Paris - did someone know but considered that it was better to make it hapen because then their agency would profit? Same with the WTC attack in 2001. It's standard operating procedure in intelligence to not reveal how they work at The cost of lives.
If an intelligence agency did act upon every suspect message then the western world would be severely disrupted. Imagine the effect of a standstill on every case when "bomb has been planted" in Call of Duty or whatever game it's used has been sent. It's hard for algorithms to realize that it's a game since the context is also needed.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Would you kindly go fuck yourself. Here, use this dildo. I understand it's made from a mold of Lexington Steele's dick.
You can call it something other than anal reaming if doesn't sit right with you. You'll also want some of that vaseline over there (or maybe you won't, I honestly don't know what you had to do with your asshole to get the job of FBI Director.)
Yep, tech companies have to do the government's job for them. Didn't Ms Clinton have an identical whinge last week? Someone's pumping a "It's all the tech companies' fault" meme into news channel, repeatedly. Unfortunately, this fits the dream of corporate welfare and fascism, I mean 'small government' and 'privatize everything' fanatics. Maybe the NSA should be privatized; that would bring many intelligence activities into public view.
If you actually read the governing documents of most HOA's you'll find that many owner members don't like their HOAs because they did didn't read those documents and listened their real estate agent's rosy tales that convinced them to buy.
HOAs are corporations. The member owners are shareholders. How often do the shareholders love what their corporation does? Except for making profits, increasing the stock value or paying out dividends.
Now add the fact that HOAs are corporations that are not allowed to make a profit or pay a dividend and have only a little control over the market value of member properties and you've removed the primary reasons most shareholder's like any corporation they've invested in.
When crypto is outlawed, only outlaws will have crypto.
Crypto doesn't kill, people kill.
You can have my crypto when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Ooh, moderator points! Five more idjits go to Minus One Hell!
Delendae sunt RIAA, MPAA et Windoze
He also says tech companies should just accept that they would be selling less secure products.
LMFTFY
He also says American tech companies should just accept that they would be selling less desirable products than their non-American competitors.
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
Dumbed down software and hardware produced in the USA with official back-doors (unofficial ones seems to be already in existence) would give a chance to producers from other countries. The same as happened with bureaucratic limitations on civil commercial UAV usage in the USA.
One of the leaders in civil UAV is the DJI, and it is not an US company.
We'll just be going back to using strong crypto from outside the USA, like we did for most of Internets history.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
This will continue nearly indefinitely. The game plan would be something like- first pass laws to prevent it from happening in the US, which will include free and open source software, second talk easily persuaded nations into the same thing, third use trade tactics and even threats to push down the "terrorism supporting" nations.
Encryption is speech. Any of these attempts are flatly unconstitutional.
You are only 4% of the worlds population.
You are only 1 of 194 countries.
If YOUR government demands backdoors, the governments of the rest of the world will either
a) Demand the same rights, the same back doors.
b) Stop trusting any IT/Comms from the USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ4xsxQSarc
Backdoors to ALL encryption cannot be done. Suppose I want to send a completely encrypted message to you and that realizing the transport available is compromised we've arranged an encryption technique of our own ahead of time. Here is your copy of this obscure book. It's the same edition and printing. For each word in my message I will send three numbers, page, line, word. If needed there is an escape into literals by sending three spaces in a row. Then the first letter of the word is used.
You and I have the book. Many others may have it or may have had it and threw it away. But will the interceptors have it? Will they be able to figure it out? Will the FBI charade be any more effective than the TSA charade?
{^_^}
You and your think alikes will be the death of American IT companies. Less and less people are willing to trust US-based hardware and software manufacturers.
I hold the view that any company that aids or helps one or a group of nation states in cyber warfare, conventional warfare, torture, oppression, insurgency, murder, and destruction of property, to be members of a terrorist organization.
Countries that occasionally dabble with terrorism are: USA, UK and Norway (invasion and attack on Libya, willfully lending war material for attack/occupation of Iraq), and probably other countries as well.
Would they also like to force everyone to buy guns that can only shoot blank ammunition?
I'd like to see that debate.
No problem, folks. We've been calling you "assholes" for a while now already.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Or build less secure devices,
I won't buy it.
If they build it,
I won't come.
It's funny, because no-laws can ever stop the terrorists/pedophiles/scumbags/copyright infringers from using something like a simple one-time pad for communication. It'll take a little while to do it by hand, but once done it's fairly hard to intercept the data. Unless you have a warrant and can get hold of the keys. That's ok - if a court issues a warrant about my data then I'll happily hand it over anyway.
Come on USA, shut up, bend over and take it in your arse (aka backdoor) - you know you like it. Meanwhile, we in the free world will just look askance at your fetishes, and get our products from those that actually understand security.
And the rest of the world is laughing because the US is crippling itself again...
As long as the fbi address that every time a credit card, identity, bank account, baby cam, web server, email account,
home pc is compromised anywhere in the world that they will compensate the victim then goo for it.
Wasn't it ridiculous when you thought about TVs which could also watch you while you watched them? Well, we got smart TVs, now.
And cell phones for tracking.
The way things go every device will need a FBI/NSA registration in the future.
Good thing we still can go to the toilet without being watched, though, yes, some people are extremely oblivious to that and take their phones with them all the time...
Even if I do sign an EULA saying that I allow [Microsoft/Yahoo/Apple/Google] to provide my correspondence to the FBI, what prevents the bad guy from encrypting his message using a 4096 bit PGP encrypted string and THEN using steganography to hide it in image data and sending that image out to his compatriots? Are you also going to make it illegal for the user to just use a complicated math calculation? Even if you do, how are you going to detect a violation of that? This entire witch hunt on encryption by the enforcement agencies boggles my mind.
I would never consider buying a home in a neighborhood without an HOA. Yards must be mowed, trash and trashcans hidden from site, prevents people from painting their houses hot pink and purple, no cars parked on the street, cars not blocking sidewalks, trees are planted and landscaping kept up, no backyard mechanics running a business from their house, no multifamily homes, limited number of dogs (no home kernels), et, etc.
In essence, HOAs prevent the "neighbors from hell": whatever it is you do on your property can not affect the value of my property.
If you are the neighbor from hell, you can't live in my neighborhood unless you change your ways.
You just don't call rape rape, call it less than consensual intercourse.
Don't call our "back doors" by the evil name of "back doors"!!
Call them "Butthole Access Portals" or "Freedom Shafts", but not "back doors"!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Dear Mr James Comey,
Thanks for the backdoors!
Sincerely,
Every Criminal Organization Ever
he has to do his job properly
If they're so worried about criminal and terrorists being smart enough to encrypt, do they really think that those folks are going to upgrade to more insecure versions? It's not like they can force upgrades.
They're not stupid. It's obvious that this has nothing to do with hunting existing or future terrorists. Encryption isn't a thing you can disable easy access to.
We NEED the government to be able to spy on us to protect us from all the people who are pissed off because of the stuff our government does.
Insisting on backdoors in software encryption is believing in a flying pink unicorn that farts butterflies and rainbows. It'is impossible to deny secure encryption by anyone not terminally stupid - such as politicians and heads of three-letter agencies.
Encryption requires the message sender and receiver privately share a key to decode a message.
AES, RSA, et al, only bring the ability to make the key very small compared to the message. If the key can be the size of the message, the classic spy "one-time pad" is unbreakable and trivial to construct/ use. We are in the age of very cheap, very tiny, storage. (As I write this, on my desk is a 32 GB USB stick that sits on my thumbnail.) Securely moving gigs of a one time pad is no more difficult than securely moving a 256 or 512 bit key. It's trivial to write the encode/decode software, anyone* can do it - all one need do to either code or decode is to XOR the message bitstream with the one-time pad (key) bitstream. The one-time pad need only be high entropy (random numbers work great) for such encryption to be unbreakable.
*short of politicians and bureaucrats...
Yards must be mowed, trash
Why, if it is during a drought it is better if you let it grow longer.
and trashcans hidden from site,
How does this affect you?
prevents people from painting their houses hot pink and purple,
Why do you care again?
no cars parked on the street
Holy Fuck why does this bother you?!?!
, cars not blocking sidewalks
Ok at least this one is annoying.
, trees are planted and landscaping kept up,
Now you are demanding they turn their yard into a park?
no backyard mechanics running a business from their house,
Umm I fix my own cars and the cars of friends and family. Why does this bother you? I am clean it isnt very often and it saves me money, maybe I will plant a tree with that saved money, just for you.
no multifamily homes,
How does this affect you? You just hate college students who split rent with roommates.
limited number of dogs (no home kernels),
I can see not wanting the neighbor to have ten, but if they dont bark and their shit is cleaned up. How does this affect you.
All I see you as is a whiny bitch. I bet people light bags of shit on your doorstep dont they.
the problem is a HOA very quickly goes National Socialist
Grass must be green and no longer than 1.752 inches at all times
All Houses must use paints from this list of suppliers (purchase list for 19.95 from Betty)
ect
Not the AC, but I've got to say that while there are a couple of your points I agree with (you want me to turn my beautiful healthy lawn into a short-cropped wasteland because you have no idea what healthy grass looks like? F that.), Do you really not see why people would object to their neighbor turning their property into an eyesore? I have to look at that pink shit every day, and it lowers my property value by association. I agree that any reasonable person should be able to work on their own car at home, and occasionally a friends. But I would go so far as to say there has never in the history of the world been a group of 10 dogs (rarely even 3) that don't bark constantly. Barking is what dogs do - it's what WE remade them to do - to act as early-warning systems to compensate for our own pitiful senses.
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
Fine with me, as long as POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS and the rest of the COTUS use same "technology".
If POTUS and FLOTUS and the SCOTUS have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.
Think of how much earlier the little cigar episode could have been solved.
An anthropologist would have a field day with this. It's all about loss of power over others. What's the favorite way to reinforce power among primates? F the other guy in the 'back door'. No big surprise, FBI wants more back doors...
Dear USA, FBI, US tech companies! You can keep your shitty spywares for yourselves.
Medical Records: people need quick access to these, encryption is a slow process, these should be in clear text.
Tax Returns: Again, encryption is slow, any encrypted returns should be audited. Any tax program should send returns in clear text over the internet.
Personal Data: Again, for speed of backup, personal data should not be encrypted.
Things that should be encrypted:
Marketing preferences: these are valuable, and sold to the highest bidder, these should always be encrypted.
Search History: again, valuable data that can be sold.
If it's about you, and you don't own it, but can be sold to the highest bidder, it can be encrypted.
If it's yours AND about you, fuck it, clear text.
As long as it's all doublespeak to legitimize our never-ending false flag proxy war in Eurasia lets call them freedom holes. Maybe we should completely invert the constitution and call it our right to be observed.
Perhaps they are thinking more of the front door.
As in the primary use for a network is to enable a bigger big brother.
Using, instead of fixing, zero days pretty much shows their view of the purpose of the network.
The problem is that, even assuming that these folks are boy scouts, it leaves us in a much worse overall position because of the actual bad actors.
Call them "Freedom Ports" or "Freedom Keys".
Wrap it up in the American flag, and it can be a shit sandwhich, but americans will line up to eat it because they can claim that they were eating "freedom sandwiches" before their neighbours, and therefore they are more patriotic.
The real bad guys ALREADY have strong encryption. PGP is free and widespread. Hizbollah operate a fiber network in Lebanon, just to make it hard for Israel to tap their traffic. Cyber criminals and terrorists know how to use strong encryption to protect their traffic.
So all you're doing by putting backdoors in all the products is to allow the bad guys to break into those devices and steal law-abiding citizen's data, while not affecting the ability of the bad guys to communicate securely. The backdoors ENABLE the criminal behaviour while doing NOTHING to help the victims of the bad guys.
When strong encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have strong encryption.
Sometimes the "writing on the wall" is blood spatter...
Technologically incompetent.
Now I am really scared.
Nonsense.
Living in the right neighborhood with a sufficiently high "buy in" prevents "neighbors from hell". Even with the "wrong kind of people", such neighbors are limited not so much by HOAs but pretty mundane zoning laws.
The old-biddie gestapo is simply unnecessary.
All an HOA does is prevent you from using your own property how you see fit. It makes your property part of the collective and the collective is clueless. Ugly paint still goes up and other measures that could improve curb appeal are banned.
The rules that could be useful aren't ever actually enforced.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
> Do you really not see why people would object to their neighbor turning their property into an eyesore? I have to look at that pink shit every day, and it lowers my property value by association.
Utter nonsense.
My last personal domicile had a "neighbor from hell" living next door. He had cars up on blocks filling his driveway. It didn't slow down the sale of that house the slightest bit.
The house was in an excellent location. It and it's yard sold itself. So did it's highly desirable suburban location. We sold it quickly, for above market, during a horrible slump.
The people worried about "property values" are stupid amateurs that are nothing but conspicuous consumers with no real clue.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
The FBI, like most of our policitians, apparently, are ignorant jackasses. If you put a 'backdoor' into encryption so the government can encrypt it, then it is exactly the same, in practical terms, as transceiving data in the clear instead. Guaranteed, terrorists, spies, and criminals, will all have access to this 'backdoor' within weeks (if not days or hours) of it becoming a reality. What do we have to do to get these fucking idiots to understand that?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
A matrix looks like this 29 30 47 62 it should have a (
around it but I don't how 71 41 38 59 )
how it is so perty I think I might put 1 in all my correspondence .
While the FBI wages a war on encryption we should ask them if they have been able to stop one terrorist attack from reading emails? Evidence points to "No."
Don't go away mad, AlecStaar--just go away.
Intel chips allready have back doors.
Paris - unencrypted SMS was used
California - encryption was not a factor.
How did they fail in both cases? Because when you spy on everyone, important info gets lost in the noise
That's more like fascism.
Comey is simply a moron...
The agency has been stealing all along already... just keep doing it and shutup... instead, he's now coming out saying that we should just give it to him so that he doesn't have to steal....
See subject: So WHY THE FUCK are you FBI & "political people" still pushing it? Not enough GOOD TALENT in programming + signal intelligence wants to help you in this madness & lunacy?? Apparently so!
* Accept this: Nobody sane or normal wants their communications collected or spied upon!
(... Have you people @ the FBI forgotten who it is that REALLY funds you, civil servants?)
Answer = "WE THE PEOPLE" - NOT "WE THE CORPORATIONS" or "the 1%" either!
APK
P.S.=> I must have "struck a nerve" with this post seeing as some scumbag weasel who I can't ID downmodded this very same post last time I posted it here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... ... apk
Don't protest, it is for your good you idiots . They just want to see what the terrorists are planning .
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Amendment IV: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
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Would they prefer the term "glorious holes"? It's as valid of a substitute as any...
No, it's not a back door. It's "allowing the FBI to do their job".
No, it's not confiscation of private property, like the British did 240 years ago, contributing to the start of the American revolution. It's "civil forfeiture".
No, it's not racial and sexual discrimination against white males. It's "affirmative action".
No, it's not mistreatment and torture of prisoners of war. It's mistreatment and torture of "enemy combatants".
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
There's a whole lot of reasonable area in lawn care that we're glossing over. Any sensible HOA will have rules regarding lawns too short, as well as too long. You don't want to live next door to 4 foot tall weeds, nor do you want the half-dead look because someone can't be arsed to fix a sprinkler. It's obnoxious, fix it.
Some groups in drought-prone areas even allow for non-grass yards. I'm in SoCal and my HOA has started allowing low- and no-water lawns. Paving stone pathways with a few shrubs (indigenous) sand, and gravel. They look pretty sweet.
Likewise with paint colors. We have a dozen or so options, across 3 companies. Sure, they're all vaguely brown/tan ... But it's a reasonable compromise.
Like most things, HOAs aren't inherently good or bad. Good ones are good. Bad ones are bad. There are probably more bad ones, stemming from the corruptibility of random Joes given a modicum of power, but I digress.
Dick holes.
If you had asked me 10 years ago what I thought the FBI would be against, I'd guess terrorists, murders, guns, drugs, etc.
I'd have guessed jello was the future enemy before I thought encryption would be vilified.
Seriously, encryption? It's been going on since forever, and will continue to, in various forms. Might as well outlaw air.
Sold quickly sure, but without a neighbor from hell, how much more would it have sold *for*. Maybe its only a few grand difference, but that's potential money they took out of your pocket. Plus the eyesore thing. If it doesn't bother you that's great. But I bet you there were several others on your block who wished he wasn't cluttering up the place.
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If the grass is less than a foot tall, it isn't healthy. Modern lawns are by their very nature ecological wastelands - mice, snakes, insects - all the things required to make a healthy ecosystem mostly require long grass to hide in, get rid of them and all you have left is an artificially supported monoculture. The four-foot weeds could be far healthier, though I can understand that some people find them unpleasant. Especially if it got that way by neglect, in which case they won't be maintained properly to compensate for the lack of wildlife eating them down.
I agree with you on HOAs though - they're democracy in microcosm, with all the potential and ugliness that implies.
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If so, first read this paragraph regarding the gal who shot up CA last week [from the New York Times]:
"Had the authorities found the posts years ago, they might have kept her out of the country. But immigration officials do not routinely review social media as part of their background checks, and there is a debate inside the Department of Homeland Security over whether it is even appropriate to do so."
Now think about this:
The government that is concerned that it may not be "appropriate" to view an immigrant candidate's social network posts, insists on being able to read it's citizens most private communications & documents!!!
In case your memory is rusty, here's start of our Constitution's 4th Amendment, Ratified 12/15/1791: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...
Seems they wish to respect the privacy of an immigrantion candidate more than that of a citizen. My sides hurt from laughing.
When repeated words of warning fall on deaf ears, vile deeds committed in the name of patriotism must take their place. For this nation may only endure when we the people are periodically reminded of the unalterable and self-evident truth, that even democratic republics may give birth to despots and tyrants.
THats right, " Trust me I work for the Government and I am here to help". My encryption will stay, FBI be damned.
At one time law enforcement had to make a case to get peoples data or personal information. The new world gives us victimless crimes and auto guilty (i.e., backdoor access). Wouldn't it be nice if law enforcement had to work like everyone else?
I suggest we call them barndoors. Because they are going to be huge, once they are discovered, it will be impossible to lock them, and all sorts of traffic will use them.