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Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-think-I've-heard-this-before dept.

Patrick O'Neill writes: Carly Fiorina wants the government to be able to "work around" encryption to aid intelligence agencies and law enforcement in their investigations, she said on Monday. The Republican presidential candidate and former HP CEO shifted the focus of her campaign to national security two days before the last Republican debate of 2015. Fiorina is the latest but not the first presidential candidate to weigh in on the encryption debate that has taken on a new life since terrorist attacks in Paris and California.

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  1. and we see, once again... by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 4, Informative

    why she was such a shitty tech CEO.

  2. Re:Good for her by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm sure lots of people want a 'work around', but what they want isn't always possible.

    It is probably not what she meant, but off course there is a workaround for encryption. I am talking off course about good old detective work, infiltration and what we expect our national security services to actually do. If you know beforehand what is about to be encrypted, you have the perfect workaround. If you only know after the message has been sent, you are probably already too late.

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    Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
  3. Re:Backdoors and Encryption by JackieBrown · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apparently Hillary thinks the same yet no Slashdot story on it.

    Hillary Clinton: Stop helping terrorists, Silicon Valley
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

  4. Re:Backdoors and Encryption by AntiAntagonist · · Score: 3, Informative

    Have heard this asserted before, but never really bothered looking it up. Had assumed tithes would be a datapoint in study, but nobody seems to mention it (even in my links). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa... http://news.rice.edu/2012/05/3... https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.do... Looks like there's no difference between the two groups (generally).