Bill Gates: Tech Companies Inviting Government Intervention (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:30AM from the blast-from-the-past dept.

In an interview with Axios on Tuesday, Bill Gates warned Apple and other tech giants that they risk the kind of nightmarish government intervention that once plagued his Microsoft if they act arrogantly. Axios reports: The big picture: "The companies need to be careful that they're not ... advocating things that would prevent government from being able to, under appropriate review, perform the type of functions that we've come to count on." Asked if he sees instances of that now, Gates replied: "Oh, absolutely." Why it matters: With the Big Tech companies feeling they're suddenly drawing unfair scrutiny, this is Microsoft's co-founder saying they're bringing some of the problems on themselves, by resisting legitimate oversight.

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Re:"resisting legitimate oversight" by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-13 05:54 · Score: 3, Interesting

In another words, using encryption that works and not installing back doors every time the NSA asks.
Pretty much this ... people who don't understand math are demanding encryption be something you can poke holes in, which you can't because math doesn't care about such things.
But if you DO poke holes in encryption, then you've undermined security for everything which relies on it, because the state actors and other people with bad intentions will know there is a hole and attack it.
This is a thinly veiled "it is illegal to keep secrets from the government".
Papers please, comrade.
Land of the free? Home of the brave? Good luck with that.
You can make it secure, or you can make it so the government has access. You can't have both, and it's largely fascists and assholes who demand it.