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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 NotSanguine on Saturday November 28 2015, @01:28AM
I do agree with your final point though, however condescending your message was. I do think I need to change my perspective. I think perhaps I need to walk away from everything. Sort of a bit of a purge, and then come back and see what things look like then.
I'm glad you're open minded enough to seek a change of perspective. My intent was not to be condescending. Rather, it was to point up the absurdity of the message that our government and the media are pushing, and pushing hard.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Saturday November 28 2015, @01:32AM
That's fair. I didn't take it personally. I think I've always been more angry and fearful of our government than I have been of terrorists. I'm not sure why it changed lately.
I think I'll walk away for the weekend and see if I can make myself rational in a few days.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!