Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com)

Lauren Weinstein says there are smart people in government, "who fully understand the technical realities of modern strong encryption systems and how backdoors would catastrophically weaken them," but asks So why do they continue to argue for these backdoor mechanisms, now more loudly than ever? The answer appears to be that they're lying to us. Or if lying seems like too strong a word, we could alternatively say they're being 'incredibly disingenuous' in their arguments. You don't need to be a computer scientist to follow the logic of how we reach this unfortunate and frankly disheartening determination regarding governments' invocation of terrorism as an excuse for demanding crypto backdoors for authorities' use.

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Re:it's not the smart people, it's the PHB

[Anonymous Coward]

Jews: Rockefellers, Rotschilds. They control world money, hence they control a lot of the world as well. See Zeitgeist if you don't know how money is created.
WTC: Those buildings crashed & burned way too cleanly, and afaik there is even material evidence it was an inside job.
Shadow Goverment: Not per se, but i bet there is a group of people trading in favors with each others, and probably rockefellers & rotschilds are involved. In my country.

Moon landings: Don't think they are fake per se... or don't want to think so, but our current inability to go back there... Srsly? We've had all this development but we are still unable to go there again?