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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, @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.