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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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FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America"
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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:23PM (5 children)
Yeah, but so far the Constitution system seems to be working pretty well. The courts are doing their jobs, and I think Trump is going to find Congress pushing back once they tire of having to cover for his excesses.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:55PM (4 children)
You apparently don't see the same news that the world outside the US does, then. Your government has been treating your constitution like bog roll for some time now.
(Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:28PM
Mendax forgot to add "because no one I know has become a victim of judicial or executive overreach"
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:34PM (2 children)
You only say that because you disagree with the Judicial decisions that have been made as of late. The only ones treating our constitution like toilet paper are the Orange One and his clown cadre, oh and you of course.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday March 17 2017, @12:14AM
The only ones treating our constitution like toilet paper are the Orange One and his clown cadre, oh and you of course.
The NSA is and has been (this certainly didn't start under Trump or even Obama, though they both support it) conducting unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace. The TSA violates people's rights in airports. Border agents violate people's rights even if they are far away from the border. The federal government is waging an unconstitutional war on drugs (even for transactions that take place completely within a particular state), even though the Constitution does not grant them the power to do such a thing. The Unpatriotic Act permits all sorts of additional unconstitutional surveillance. Thug officers steal people's property without any due process and call it "civil forfeiture". We still have - in the 21st century - laws against obscenity, even though they blatantly conflict with the first amendment. The government issues NSLs to force people to remain silent about its (possibly unconstitutional) activities, which is yet another violation of the first amendment. There are countless more ways that the government violates the Constitution, and it's too tedious to list them.
Who could be so delusional as to think that the government is respecting the Constitution, or that it ever even did to begin with? It's not just Trump who is ignoring the highest law of the land.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 18 2017, @02:32AM
Your partisanship clouds not only your vision, but your judgement. "The world would be a perfect place if Trump hadn't won. The world would be better than perfect if Hillary had won."
FFS, wake the hell up. Trump and Hillary are similar creatures, with Trump being the less evil of the two.
What makes Trump better than Hillary? 1. Trump's distrust of the media, for starters. The media has warped minds, such as your own. The media is poison. 2. Trump's distrust of the intel communities. Past presidents seem to have taken the word of the NSA/CIA/FBI/whatever at face value - except for Bush who took the intel's word, then painted it up to be ten times worse than it was. 3. Trump has never displayed a willingness to be bought and paid for. 4. Trump has already thrown sand into the gears of the military industrial complex, and seems likely to throw a monke wrench or ten into the works as well. 5. Trump is far less likely to invade any contries than any other candidate was. 6. Trump gives at least a small damn about the little, common people. He wants to bring jobs back to the US, he wants to see "living wages" paid for real work.
Get over your partisanship, and try to refute those six points. And, stop excusing Hillary's criminal acts. In short, stand up and act human - stop being a sheep.