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A coalition of dozens of the largest tech companies in the world is adamantly opposing any form of an official "backdoor" into encrypted devices.
The Information Technology Industry Council is a group of more than 60 major tech companies and organizations, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel and Facebook.
"We deeply appreciate law enforcement's and the national security community's work to protect us," the council said in a statement issued Thursday, "but weakening encryption or creating backdoors to encrypted devices and data for use by the good guys would actually create vulnerabilities to be exploited by the bad guys, which would almost certainly cause serious physical and financial harm across our society and our economy."
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday November 27 2015, @07:30AM
This article explains how this is all like to come about
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1126-greenwald-snowden-paris-encryption-20151126-story.html [latimes.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2015, @08:15AM
Many of the comments in that article make me want to shoot myself in the head. Example:
Suppose for one minute that he is actually pro US security and this is all a ruse. Hypothesis and scenarios:
A. Create a big fuss about privacy. Snoden plays the part.
B. Public are enraged
C. Silicon Valley create encryption apps
D. Majority of people are innocent and have nothing to hide so will never bother using encryption.
E. No need for a Backdoor. Just monitor who downloads encryption apps.
F. Now you can get a list of all the bad guys in one place.
G. Send your guys to work at the encryption apps HQ.
H. Constant steam of Intel provided about the bad guys.
I. Drone the SOBs.
J. Public are none the wiser. Nations and innocents kept safe
How can people be this cowardly, ignorant, and unprincipled? Are they truly devoid of knowledge about history, why we have checks and balances in government, how power corrupts, and why we have a constitution in the first place? If only all of these people were government shills or trolls. If only.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 27 2015, @10:41AM
"How can people be this cowardly, ignorant, and unprincipled? "
Most people are lazy. Most people are conformists. Most people find thinking strenuous. Many people are just plain stupid. Almost all people are out for number one. And, most people just don't give the smallest damn for any other people with whom they might disagree. And, virtually all people believe that they are the good people that government is protecting.
To summarize, people are comfortable, and they don't want to look around to find any reason to be uncomfortable. They may live in a prison, but they are comfortable within their prison cells, and they don't want to rock the boat. You might want to watch The Matrix and Mr. Robot again. Or, you might do some research into human psychology. I sometimes wish that I had formal education in psychology - unfortunately, I can't refer you to any good texts to study.
If you don't understand how weak-minded the American people are, just look at how weak they are physically. Huge percentages of our population are obese, and of those who are not obese, many of the rest are incapable of lifting their own body weight. We choose to eat shit, and we choose to sit on our couches, feeding shit to our minds by way of the boob tube.
The sad thing is, the American people aren't unique in those traits. We may be the worst, but we aren't unique.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.