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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: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:18AM
Let them take the guns, you're powerless to prevent them from outlawing crypto.
Unconstitutional mass surveillance is occurring right now. The government is violating the constitution in countless other ways, as well. This is happening even though so many ordinary people have guns in this country. Why are they not stopping it?
I am opposed to gun control, but lots of people who are also opposed to gun control only seem to care about the second amendment. When the government violates other parts of the constitution, they do not care much. This is particularly evident when it comes to Republicans.
That's fine with me that I have to contact NSA and jump through hoops to write encryption software as manufacture munitions.
Why would such an unconstitutional requirement ever be fine with you?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:13AM
but lots of people who are also opposed to gun control only seem to care about the second amendment. When the government violates other parts of the constitution, they do not care much.
I think you will find you are dead wrong about this.
The same people who oppose gun control also oppose just about every federal overreach.
Stop grandstanding. Either that or find a significant group opposed to gun control but which is all right with government reading your mail.
Other than the delusional bar fly, you won't find any.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:27AM
I think you will find you are dead wrong about this.
I have not noticed a significant correlation between support for gun rights and support for freedom in general.
Either that or find a significant group opposed to gun control but which is all right with government reading your mail.
Lots of Republicans are exactly like that. Is that just a myth, or are they all merely delusional bar flies?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:46AM
They've got nothing to hide.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday December 17 2015, @07:27AM
They hid frojack. I wonder why? Does frojack have a backdoor?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday December 17 2015, @08:32AM
Anyone gets taken away must have had it coming!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex