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Feinstein-Burr Encryption Legislation Is Dead In The Water (slashdot.org)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Reuters: After the San Bernardino terrorist attack, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to require technology companies to give law enforcement agencies a "back door" to encrypted communications and electronic devices. Now, the push for legislation is dead only months after the terrorist attack. In April, Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein released the official version of their anti-encryption bill with hopes for it to pass through Congress. But with the lack of White House support for the legislation as well as the high-profile court case between Apple and the Justice Department, the legislation will likely not be introduced this year, and even if it were, it would stand no chance of advancing, said sources familiar with the matter. "The short life of the push for legislation illustrates the intractable nature of the debate over digital surveillance and encryption, which has been raging in one form or another since the 1990s," reports Reuters. Technology companies believe security would be undermined if it were to create a "back door" for law enforcement, while law enforcement agencies believe they need to monitor phone calls, emails, text messages and encrypted data in general for security purposes.
I live and work in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, and Burr can kiss my ass. Any re-election signs this cocksucker puts up will be greeted by a big go fuck yourself. He's a pandering plutocrat that got elected by well meaning conservative constituents and sold himself out. Posting not-anonymously because fuck you NSA and your all seeing eye bullshit. Let's talk assholes. Add some more shit to my FBI file for all I care. Fuckers...
USA USA USA!!!
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
I see you are observing the "dildo legislation" I have harped about in the past.
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Well, here it is, a few years later-- and we have a dildo up all our collective asses (TPP), because after 4 consecutive attempts and being told no each and every time, they decided behind closed doors that we really meant yes, and just jammed it in without even asking.
Expect the same kind of shit with Feinstein and her fetish for backdooring everything and everyone-- for our own safety, of course.
If not her, some other tool with a vested interest in pornoscopes, panopticon surveilance, secret courts and secret rulings, and of course, secret databases that you arent allowed to ask if your data is on file in.
because all that is to keep you safe, citizen! It has nothing whatsoever with the raging hardon we in the panopticon have when we think about how we can charge you with a made up crime and have it stick, all while eating popcorn watching you go about your life 24/7, and snickering about all those "private" things you do, buy, and say online.
Nothing whatsoever. it's all about your safety. Yes. Your safety. Now, please stand in front of the security device...
Oh yes. That's it. Lean a little more to the right. Oh yeah...Mmm.. Good citizen, Very good.