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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: 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