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Former FBI Director James Comey Reveals How Apple and Google's Encryption Efforts Drove Him 'Crazy' (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In his explosive new book, A Higher Loyalty, fired FBI director James Comey denounces President Trump as "untethered to the truth" and likens him to a "mob boss," but he also touches on other topics during his decades-long career in law enforcement -- including his strong objection to the tech industry's encryption efforts. When Apple and Google announced in 2014 that they would be moving their mobile devices to default encryption, by emphasizing that making them immune to judicial orders was good for society, "it drove me crazy," he writes. He goes on to lament the lack of "true listening" between tech and law enforcement, saying that "the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees," such as terrorism and organized crime.
He writes, "I found it appalling that the tech types couldn't see this. I would frequently joke with the FBI 'Going Dark' team assigned to seek solutions, 'Of course the Silicon Valley types don't see the darkness -- they live where it's sunny all the time and everybody is rich and smart." But Comey understood it was an unbelievably difficult issue and that public safety had to be balanced with privacy concerns.
He writes, "I found it appalling that the tech types couldn't see this. I would frequently joke with the FBI 'Going Dark' team assigned to seek solutions, 'Of course the Silicon Valley types don't see the darkness -- they live where it's sunny all the time and everybody is rich and smart." But Comey understood it was an unbelievably difficult issue and that public safety had to be balanced with privacy concerns.
Translation: "I'm talking out of my ass because I'm a Trump voter and we're the best at it."
Translation: "I'm a Shillary who anonymously posts lazy ad hominem instead of actually addressing the point raised, because I hope that other lazy liberals will get distracted mentally cheering me on and forget to do a little homework and see that the person I'm pretending to scold is actually correct."
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
So right! /s
Just from yesterday, the going dark thing wasn't real... https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
When viewed from the narrow perspective of the FBI or law enforcement then total access (no privacy rights for citizens) makes total sense...they're only going after the bad guys (at least till some administration who wants the country to run like a dictator's paradise and the FBI become his/her personal police force and have the Justice Department run like his personal judicial system), cause you don't know when that kind of nutball will get elected...
But if you take a step back and look at the reason for the right to privacy (to protect the citizenry from the government abusing its power improperly at some point) then the tech industry's view (really just Apple at this point) makes sense.
The guy running the Justice Department is the guy that sounds like Forrest Gump at this point although taking orders from the President for the most part (very un Forest like there). JMHO...