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"We have an ongoing dialogue with a lot of tech companies in a variety of different areas," he [Rod Rosenstein] told Politico Pro. "There's some areas where they are cooperative with us. But on this particular issue of encryption, the tech companies are moving in the opposite direction. They're moving in favor of more and more warrant-proof encryption."
[...] In the interview, Rosenstein also said he "favors strong encryption."
"I favor strong encryption, because the stronger the encryption, the more secure data is against criminals who are trying to commit fraud," he explained. "And I'm in favor of that, because that means less business for us prosecuting cases of people who have stolen data and hacked into computer networks and done all sorts of damage. So I'm in favor of strong encryption."
[...] He later added that the claim that the "absolutist position" that strong encryption should be by definition, unbreakable, is "unreasonable."
[...] Rosenstein closed his interview by noting that he understands re-engineering encryption to accommodate government may make it weaker.
"And I think that's a legitimate issue that we can debate—how much risk are we willing to take in return for the reward?" he said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @12:26AM (10 children)
I am 100% serious, I've thought of going the buddhist monk route of lighting myself on fire with a pile of leaflets explaining the various things that drove me to leave society in such a dramatic fashion. Our country is so very fucked and has been for so very long that I often want to check out. Of course it would only work in a VERY public place so that it couldn't be easily swept under the rug.
The high suicide rate of young adults should be a very telling symptom, but asshole politicians still like to pretend that selling out the country is what's best. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Sunday November 12 2017, @12:33AM (1 child)
They would edit it out of the narrative. Better to bring them all physically to heel. That they can't spin.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @12:37AM
No, something like that would go viral fast... I don't know if it would impact Americans the way it worked for the Vietnamese or the guy who's credited with triggering the Arab Spring though. I feel that most would just say "What an idiot" or "We need regulations restricting kerosene to protect people from themselves!".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @12:34AM (1 child)
What dow FTATHTRIO mean?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @12:38AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @12:37AM
Any suicide without a political aim is a wasted opportunity. At least try to take out a politician or other scumbag. Hell, take out some criminals vigilante style. Wire yourself so you can blow when you get your ass beat.
Your idea has some merit but it doesn't clean up the trash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @02:00AM (4 children)
Be man enough to formally renounce your citizenship and then afterwards post it on youtube with an extended explanation of why.
The first one might not make a difference, but after a few dozen, and then few hundred, and then few thousand start defecting from America in the same way, those who aren't 'true patriots' *snicker* might start looking around and thinking about what those people said for why they left and come to the same conclusion themselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @02:07AM (3 children)
1. Actually renouncing your citizenship costs money.
2. Where do you go?
3. Who other than kids watches shit on youtube?
4. Your definition of "being a man" is strange. I was always raised to think that men shouldn't do things simply to get attention...
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday November 12 2017, @02:43PM (2 children)
And yet you post on a web site where the only thing your comments achieve are a little bit of attention.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @03:06PM (1 child)
Just attention, not discussion or debate? Maybe that's why you post, but I'd rather bounce my views off other people and learn something, otherwise I wouldn't be posting AC...
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday November 12 2017, @03:19PM
Attention is the precondition for discussion or debate.
And I don't see what it has to do with posting as AC (other than the fact that some people will not see — and thus not discuss — your posts as AC). You don't think my real name is "maxwell demon", do you?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.