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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: 1) by Some call me Tim on Thursday December 17 2015, @05:15AM
I'm getting tired of this shit. California has most of the anti-gun laws on Obama's wish list (short of confiscation) and none of them make any difference at all in crime rates. The many of California's laws deal with cosmetics as in "OMG, it looks scary so we have to have a law against it". All the while, our state Senator Feinstien has declared all of our Veterans as being unfit to own firearms while she has armed guards 24/7. http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/03/6011-feinstein-says-veterans-mentally-ill-cant-own-guns/ [mrconservative.com] Yes it's a crappy website but it was one of the fist that came up in a search for Feinstien that wasn't a youtube link. That alone should tell you something.
Questioning science is how you do science!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @06:04AM
California has most of the anti-gun laws on Obama's wish list (short of confiscation) and none of them make any difference at all in crime rates.
On what basis do you make that claim? I think that we can agree you are rational person, correct?
So you must have good research to support your opinions. [citylab.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @02:37PM
That link, no only is irrelevant to "Obama's wishlist", but does not say what you think it does. Note that paper is not at all what you think it is nor what the writer of that news piece. They lumped 61% of all firearm fatalities being suicides in with the crime rate and called that authoritative. Then it moves on to utilizing subjective values for data analysis that just so happens to have an extremely high correlation with what they wanted to find. Finally switching bases to correlating the number of laws with the number of firearm related incidents as classified and defined by themselves.
They showed five major problems with their own study, any one of which makes the study invalid. This was a by-the-numbers grant-led research mission, which is probably why it was published publicly in JAMA instead of in a database.
The last line of the study has integrity:
I suggest you read it before showing your continuing ignorance on academic rigor, research process, and the current subject matter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @07:52AM
. California has most of the anti-gun laws on Obama's wish list (short of confiscation) and none of them make any difference at all in crime rates.
Um, that is not Obama's wish list, it is your neighbor's wish list. Besides, the most dangerous armed faction in California is the police. I remember a picture of a red brick wall shortly after the LA riots of some years ago, and spray-painted on the wall was "LAPD Rules!", pointing out, as one commentator did, that the LAPD is just the best paid, staffed, and armed gang in the City of Angels. And then there are several recent incidents. So yeah, Thanks Obama! For taking away Californian's guns.
But on the side, you better hide your guns. I recommend burying them, covered in grease and grease paper, just like WWI vintage, so that Obama can't find them. Same thing with all your ammo. Vacuum sealed drums, at least six feet down. Leave no traces of disturbance where you bury them, and for God's sake do not make any maps or record any GPS coordinates that will just help the gun-grabbers grab your guns. After a few years, even if the jackbooted neighbors interrogate you about where all your guns are, you honestly won't remember! That is the way to stay an armed and vigilant, and Alzheimerish, free citizen of the Great State that no longer has any Grizzlies alive in it.