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?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @10:54PM (1 child)
So let me get this straight: It's bad when Big Brother makes sure people behave, but when Snowden (aka Russia) and Assange do it, you guys all cheer.
The reality is that there's always going to be someone watching you, whether it's the tribal king impregnating your wife on your wedding night in 3000BC, priest in the confessional in 800AD, or the rootkit in your phone in 2017.
Wake up you morons. You don't get to pick what kind of privacy you get. You never got to. That's humanity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @11:02PM
We can pick who to kill first, second, third, fourth....