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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday March 16 2017, @09:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the compelling-truth dept.

Last week FBI Director James Comey at the Boston College conference on cybersecurity stated:

While that quote in the article is taken out of context, it is even more disturbing when taken in context. The included video puts the quote in context where Comey is arguing against widespread access to strong encryption with the public. There are other quotes included as well that are just as disturbing, such as:

Even our communications with our spouses, with our clergy members, with our attorneys are not absolutely private in America... ...In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel any one of us to testify in court about those very private communications.

Is this the "adult conversation" on encryption he was getting ready for last year?


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  • (Score: 2) by chewbacon on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:18PM (19 children)

    by chewbacon (1032) on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:18PM (#480067)

    We, that is the apparent majority of Americans, are all terrorized and willing to give up our rights to feel safe, yet that feeling is futile.

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:26PM (18 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:26PM (#480072) Homepage

    I wouldn't say futile. There is a power-struggle underway in American intelligence and there are still a lot of good guys still in there. Through a combination of gross negligence and eating each other alive, we are still going to get more leaks.

    The deep state is desperate and is shitting its pants, which is why you see all of the rats (media, former intelligence, complicit academia, paid protesters) coming out of the woodwork. The true patriots will prevail.

    I just wanna see all those fucking leaks released already.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:10PM (17 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:10PM (#480092)

      The only deep state is the state officials deep up The Orange One's arse. Care to join? They're taking invitations.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:36PM (16 children)

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:36PM (#480101) Homepage

        I would gladly Join team trump so that I could rip the liberal tumors one by one out of my beloved country.

        Liberal punks are so cute thinking that they can beat us. [youtube.com] We've been tolerant of your whining up until this point, but when we fight back, you're gonna be hurtin' after you and your cowardly buddies retreat.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @12:26AM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @12:26AM (#480122)

          What is your great winner's track record again? No wall, no ban, no trumpdontcare and no budget. So far we've been rather successful in stopping him. Republicans think they're going to succeed, but the infighting will prevent anything that the orange one has promised. So keep raging against the non-existent deep state and we'll watch the fireworks as your dreams of a great America are dashed against the reality of our democracy in action.

          And no, that video is not cute. Those individuals are just as incorrect in their methods as you are. Not all of us resort to violence and threats to get our point across. Some call our congress people and tell them what they want, and some (admittedly not many since this election cycle) actually listen to their constituents. A politician who does not listen to all of his constituents will not be a politician for long.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @02:33AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @02:33AM (#480163)

            Ethanol is just mad because he hasn't come out of the closet yet. He just wants some cute liberal action. Conservatives are such bad fuckers, you know. They also suck at humor. And they are not too smart. And, they will loose. They will loose it all.

          • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 17 2017, @02:38AM (3 children)

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday March 17 2017, @02:38AM (#480166) Homepage

            Hahahahah...despite your shallow threats, your death rattle [theintercept.com] is close at-hand.

            Lies and propaganda have worked in the past, but folks are too smart for that now. We have the U.S. military and the Excalibur of truth on our side.

            You have nothing but a bunch of self-destructive indoctrinist bullshit and a bunch of wimps who until now were calling the Constitution an antiquated document and firearms evil incarnate. Well, we were calling your KKK-style attacks on free-speech evil incarnate, and now all of a sudden your kind are in support of the very things you hated now that you're at the losing end. You're worse than the most ignorant backwater flyover rednecks, because they had principles and stuck to them while you betrayed yours in an instant.

            This is gonna be good.

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 17 2017, @02:59AM

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday March 17 2017, @02:59AM (#480171) Journal

              Eth...you're starting to forget the first rule of drug dealing, which is your case should read "don't huff your own jenkem." You're trying too hard.

              --
              I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @03:24AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @03:24AM (#480183)

              You're right that it will be good... You're just mistaken as to who will prevail in the end. Yup the Republicans are doing really "good" jobs at the propaganda. Good was in scare quotes. They are failing miserably. No wall to save us from the big bad Mexican rapists, they didn't put the most corrupt politician since the other Clinton in jail, twice failed to save us from Radical Islamic Terrorists, no trumpdontcare to save us from the abysmal failure of ACA and no budget to save us from the horror of a run away deep state. The Orange One is burning bridges in his own party and will stand naked and alone when the inevitable happens and the moderate Republicans (it's not an oxymoron as much as it sounds like it) stop putting up with his impulsivity and stop protecting him.

              But you have swallowed his lies aka campaign promises like they where candy because you hate those damn librils so damned much it makes you soooo angry. You have anger issues and a loose grasp of reality. You don't listen to me now but remember my words. You will regret your beloved party ever having sold its soul to the proverbial devil. Enjoy your fun while we try to stop this train wreck.

              • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 17 2017, @04:48AM

                by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday March 17 2017, @04:48AM (#480214) Homepage

                Surrender, lefty.

                You can speak all the words you want to, but your buddies will still act violently against free speech. Let them do so. If they had been moderate and constitutionalists in the first place, we would not be in this situation. There would not be a backlash agsinst your kind, because we would not be physically attacking each other. We would have been in a moderate America united against extremist speech where people united for their own best interests fought against a common enemy. They would have put up a winning battle to fight for a winning candidate not anointed by the elites.

                But no, your buddies fellated the party line and dug their own grave and now they must sleep in it...or fight a losing battle against those who know how to fight. And, hint: your buddies don't know how to fight. Leftists are effeminate faggots who know how to show up to a rally. Rightists have military and other combat training.

                You can work with us, or against us...but rightists have our best interests in mind and extend the glad hand for you to help us to find a common-ground. We're not useful idiots like you are.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @02:15AM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @02:15AM (#480157)

          I would gladly support death camps for all people with IQ's less than 135 because those people are the problem.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @02:34AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @02:34AM (#480164)

            > death camps for all people with IQ's less than 135

            Bullied much in high school?

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 17 2017, @03:00AM (3 children)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday March 17 2017, @03:00AM (#480173) Journal

            As someone who wouldn't be sent to one of those...screw you. A person's worth is not measured solely by their intelligence, and IQ is a crap proxy for someone's intelligence as it is. It measures a specific subset of verbal and mathematical reasoning, mostly in an English-speaking and Westernized milieu. Intelligence has many more facets. If you're serious about this, well, you're just another example of why INT and WIS are two different stats.

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            I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @04:06AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @04:06AM (#480196)

              well it's a better value than most of the arbitrary things people are murdered over it would make the world tangibly better, it would get rid of pretty much all elected officials all of the plutocrats and most people that support fascism.

              no kkk no fascist usa, the only way to achieve this is to eliminate all of the people that collaborate with the fascists, the dutch did it after wwII but the stupid people in the US hired the SS because scarey socialists, the result is what we have now violent police state

              as someone that should be eliminated you should think that your sacrifice will make things better for those that remain, that would make you a not sociopath but the reality is you are a sociopath and have no value as a human

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 17 2017, @05:30AM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday March 17 2017, @05:30AM (#480228) Journal

                If those charts correlating IQ with GRE scores are correct mine is 145, so in your scheme I'd escape your little death camps. What you, with your presumably Promethean IQ, don't seem to have realized, is that by doing this you become precisely as bad as all those violent people you call stupid, and in many ways worse, because *you ought to goddamn know better, genius.*

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                I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @04:24AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @04:24AM (#480208)

              If he's serious about this, he's probably not intelligent at all. He has neither wisdom nor intelligence, regardless of what his IQ (which is pseudoscience) may or may not be.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @03:15AM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @03:15AM (#480181)

          Come at me bro. Some of us you intend to "fight back" against also have guns. It will be a good day to die the day you think you can throw me into a concentration camp.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @04:18AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @04:18AM (#480202)

            It is a good day to die when you realize that your existence is damaging to everyone around you, suicide is not only an option it is a responsibility.

          • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 17 2017, @04:51AM (1 child)

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday March 17 2017, @04:51AM (#480215) Homepage

            We don't want to fight you, but wish to join with you with common ground to work for mutual interest.

            Although if you wish to fight against us, we will win. [soylentnews.org]

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @03:04PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @03:04PM (#480424)

              Then stop advocating directly for violence... Pretty sure your mother would cry for a week straight if she saw the shit you post online.