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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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday November 27 2015, @09:51AM
Dad had a Top Secret security clearance, I strongly suspect he did Signals Intelligence so it's not like Mom doesn't know what encryption is or why she needs to use it. She's quite diligent about shredding her paper documents.
All on her own she figured out that deleting a file on her Mac only marks the space as unused, it doesn't actually erase the document itself.
"You're right mom. But there's a way you can shred your documents on your Mac as well." One does this with Disk Utility, or with bcwipe from MacPorts.
"Would you like me to teach you how to do it?"
"No."
So she's got identify theft data all over her Mac and I can't even convince her to permit me to teach her how to Erase Free Space with Disk Utility.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 27 2015, @11:20AM
Uhhhh, "top secret" doesn't really mean much. I was handed a "confidential" clearance at my first duty station. I thought "wow". Not long after, came a "secret". Again, I thought "Wow, this is awesome". Eventually, I reported to my first sea-going command, where I was a much more important part of things. "Top secret". That clearance meant jack-shit when it came to walking through the door into CIC until it was deemed that I had a "need to know". It never did get me inside the rocket magazine or the launcher. Nor did it ever allow me to read the manuals on the rockets.
Once you possess a "top secret", you begin to realize how labyrinthine the secrecy structure really is. Without further details, I might ASSume that your dad was just another plebe like myself.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday November 27 2015, @09:58PM
A little bird lit on my windowsill as I was having my morning coffee, to let me know that my father once had a bit to much Scotch in that little bird's direct presence.
I'd give you more details but the Navy would exhume my father's battleship grey steel casket then inter it for all eternity at Leavenworth.
Let's just say that while I don't know what was inside those black boxes that are aboard submarines, I do have a pretty good idea of what those quiet men hoped to accomplish by tending to them.
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