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Clinton Hints At Tech Industry Compromise Over Encryption (huffingtonpost.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: At the Democratic presidential debate last night, Marques Brownlee asked the candidates a pointed question about whether the government should require tech companies to implement backdoors in their encryption, and how we should balance privacy with security. The responses were not ideal for those who recognize the problems with backdoors. Martin O'Malley said the government should have to get a warrant, but skirted the rest of the issue. Bernie Sanders said government must "have Silicon Valley help us" to discover information transmitted across the internet by ISIS and other terrorist organizations. He thinks we can do that without violating privacy, but didn't say how. But the most interesting comment came from Hillary Clinton. After mentioning that Obama Administration officials had "started the conversation" with tech companies on the encryption issue, one of the moderators noted that the government "got nowhere" with its requests. Clinton replied, "That is not what I've heard. Let me leave it at that." The implications of that small comment are troubling.

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  1. Re:Voting my interests by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    She can't be trusted, full stop. A vote for Hillary is a vote against your interests because the only interests Hillary has is in what is good for her.

    I don't trust Hillary but I trust the goons on the right even less because their interests are routinely directly contrary to my own as well as to what I consider good public policy. All politicians act in self interest and to presume otherwise is dangerously naive. I presume they are acting in self interest and just try to find someone who isn't too obviously a crook ...

    No, you don't. You don't try AT ALL.

    Because if you did, you'd have NOTHING to do with Clinton.

    Tens of millions of dollars - at least from the selling of the Marc Rich pardon. And some of that money was for selling control of US uranium to a Russian associate of Marc Rich -while HIllary! was Secretary of State - a deal that needed State Department approval. The Clinton "Foundation" only got $1 million from that Russian for that deal.

    Hillary! is under FBI investigation for corruption and violating national security laws.

    She's told her aide to delete classification headers and send a classified email unsecurely - in other words, Hillary! LIED.

    You haven't tried to find someone who isn't a crook - AT ALL.

    Go ahead, lie to yourself if you want. The only way you could believe yourself is if you have your head so far up you ass you can see your own damn molars.

  2. Re: The biggest problem with backdoors by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, that is not true. Islam claims that the collection writings which Christians call the Old Testament, and Jews call Scripture, is distorted and corrupted. with the current version being incomplete and containing additions. So, the document which Jews and Christians consider to be divine revelation (the exact definition of that term varies), Muslims consider to be something which contains some divine revelation which is indecipherable without the Koran.

    --
    The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
  3. Re:The biggest problem with backdoors by Aighearach · · Score: 3, Informative

    It wasn't just "folks like... Rosenberg," the Soviets managed to infiltrate (to a shockingly complete degree) all of the major US nuclear research locations. They were the second largest employers in Los Alamos and every nuclear facility.

    History shows that those types of secrets don't wait around for a naughty person to leak them, they get attacked and accessed almost instantly.