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A coalition of dozens of the largest tech companies in the world is adamantly opposing any form of an official "backdoor" into encrypted devices.
The Information Technology Industry Council is a group of more than 60 major tech companies and organizations, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel and Facebook.
"We deeply appreciate law enforcement's and the national security community's work to protect us," the council said in a statement issued Thursday, "but weakening encryption or creating backdoors to encrypted devices and data for use by the good guys would actually create vulnerabilities to be exploited by the bad guys, which would almost certainly cause serious physical and financial harm across our society and our economy."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 27 2015, @11:20AM
Uhhhh, "top secret" doesn't really mean much. I was handed a "confidential" clearance at my first duty station. I thought "wow". Not long after, came a "secret". Again, I thought "Wow, this is awesome". Eventually, I reported to my first sea-going command, where I was a much more important part of things. "Top secret". That clearance meant jack-shit when it came to walking through the door into CIC until it was deemed that I had a "need to know". It never did get me inside the rocket magazine or the launcher. Nor did it ever allow me to read the manuals on the rockets.
Once you possess a "top secret", you begin to realize how labyrinthine the secrecy structure really is. Without further details, I might ASSume that your dad was just another plebe like myself.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday November 27 2015, @09:58PM
A little bird lit on my windowsill as I was having my morning coffee, to let me know that my father once had a bit to much Scotch in that little bird's direct presence.
I'd give you more details but the Navy would exhume my father's battleship grey steel casket then inter it for all eternity at Leavenworth.
Let's just say that while I don't know what was inside those black boxes that are aboard submarines, I do have a pretty good idea of what those quiet men hoped to accomplish by tending to them.
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