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The same government that is fighting against the use of encryption by its citizens has approved use of Silent Circle's app, which allows users to make end-to-end encrypted phone calls from iPhones, iPads, and Android devices:
The certification follows other major software makers, including BlackBerry and Apple, whose software is also allowed to be used for low-level secure work.
[...] The certification may benefit users in government, but it's the same administration that's spent the past year fighting Silicon Valley against encryption.
Some have called for backdoors to be put in encryption, despite calls from the security and academic community saying it would defeat the very point of scrambled data. Others have called on greater cooperation between the US government and tech companies.
Irony much?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday December 17 2015, @02:46AM
I will agree to their world of no privacy from the government at all..... when Senators, Congressmen, the President, and the FBI director are all as naked and public as they wish for me to be to them .
As soon as they get naked (literally too), publish their bank account numbers, publish their social security numbers, tell me every single fucking time they walk into Wallmart/Target/7-11/Macy's/Bank/{EVERYWHERE}, and what aisle, and how long , then I will do the same. The moment I can look at my RSS feeds and see that bitch Hillary really is in the Oval Office today, and for the last 18 minutes too, then I will calm down about the fact she knows exactly the same about me.
The moment a Senator publishes their naked pictures and a masturbation video on Pornhub.com, I won't feel so bad about walking through the naked-porno-scanners with the TSA. Heck, I'll even get naked, bend over, and spread the cheeks. It can't be any worse or embarrasing than Rubio trying to suck his own dick on Pornhub.com right?
All for security. All for our nation. Let's build the theater.
Come on you hypocritical sons of bitches. Step up to information symmetry, and then maybe you might have the ethical high ground. Maybe. Until then Napolean, you're just a fucking pig on two legs spouting your bullshit about how the horse needs to go the glue factory for the betterment of the whole farm.
This horse ain't buying what you're selling.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:21AM
I will agree to their world of no privacy from the government at all..... when Senators, Congressmen, the President, and the FBI director are all as naked and public as they wish for me to be to them .
You shouldn't ever agree with it.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday December 17 2015, @06:14AM
No, I'm willing to be more flexible than that. If the argument is that in an entirely transparent world, the state of security will be found to be much higher, then I'm willing to consider it as an experiment. I was impressed when I heard that China was experimenting with special economic zones the first time. For a people thought to be so "Communist" that they would never see reason, they did indeed experiment with the oppositions recipes so to speak.
I'm even willing to concede, that all the conspiracy theories might just be paranoia. Maybe.
So I will cooperate with their zero privacy and anonymity initiate with full (not just mass) surveillance of our entire country (border to border, person to person, nook to cranny) and anyone else we can. As long as it dictates as perfect information symmetry as possible will be the Constitutional legal requirement. They must make information asymmetry itself a crime punishable by fines and all the way up to deportation (even those tracing roots to the Mayflower) depending on severity and possible impact. DuPont executives would get the chair, along with the executive who thought the information asymmetry of those poor farm people being poisoned was "correct" and "and good for the bottom line". Bathrooms, and certain private areas in residences only, would be information symmetry exempt. We would literally agree, and codify, the information asymmetries WRT their acceptability and consequences.
Under those conditions I agree. Let's experiment. I'm going to Wall Street after grabbing some popcorn. That's going to be one hell of a strip show.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:40PM
No, I'm willing to be more flexible than that. If the argument is that in an entirely transparent world, the state of security will be found to be much higher, then I'm willing to consider it as an experiment.
Those who give up freedom for security deserve to live in North Korea.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Some call me Tim on Thursday December 17 2015, @05:30AM
Modded you underrated because I've flown exactly once since this bullshit was enacted. Spent way too much time in a Disney like line of people, many of whom were carrying bottles of wine despite the constantly playing video telling them that it wouldn't be allowed through the checkpoint. I saw no less than five 55 gallon trash cans filled with banned liquids right next to the checkpoint. I asked the TSA drone, if they you're so worried about these liquids on the airplane, why the hell would you let so much accumulate right next to the crowded checkpoint? I got a shrug for an answer. So much for our right to freely travel in our own country.
Questioning science is how you do science!