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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:07AM
There is no difference between protecting yourself with one dangerous technology and protecting yourself with another dangerous technology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @05:05AM
The important thing is not leave them on the kitchen counter in reach of the kids. Heaven forbid that your 5 year old find that copy of PGP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @05:10AM
Copy of PGP on a counter? Okay grandpa its past your bedtime.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:43PM
Oh yeah, the "Think of the kids!" argument. I honestly didn't see that coming. Well here you go: paedophiles use encryption to perpetuate abuse against children, therefore it must be banned.
Do you see the slippery slope of your argument for government monopoly on technologies? Government shouldn't be the only ones with the right to self defense, and they shouldn't be the only ones with backdoor free encryption.
Your move.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @02:18PM
He doesn't care. Authoritarians know they are right and no one has ever been able to convince them otherwise. From Caesars, to Tsars, to modern mini-fascists, they are all the same. They take what isn't theirs and ban what they don't use until there is nothing left but concrete walls, snitching neighbors, and we are all prisoners to their obviously correct way of living.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday December 18 2015, @04:47AM
I would not describe encryption as "dangerous". Encryption may sometimes shield people who do things that are actually harmful, but the act of encrypting data is not itself harmful.
Well here you go: paedophiles use encryption to perpetuate abuse against children
If someone is abusing children, then maybe more specific terms like "child molester" could be used. The real point of your example has not been lost on me, but I can't help but comment on the terminology being used when I see real people use it this way all the time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 21 2015, @08:07PM
Quite, but encryption is dangerous in the same way that a bulletproof vest is dangerous. You can protect yourself with a bulletproof vest, but it is pretty fucking difficult to kill someone with one. In other words, despite the US governments claims that crypto is a "dangerous munition", it really isn't. Guns on the other hand really are dangerous.