Do we need an amendment to the constitution? We can't keep fighting these fights. Eventually they will win.
An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
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#132Please stop voting dumbasses in the US, it affects everyone living in countries who have commercial agreements with then
If you don't like the idiots in Congress... then run for office. Engage in the civic process. Why aren't there more nerds and programmers in Congress? We should be there
People won't vote for them.
Everyone complains about how politicians behave, but the truth is that they won't vote for you unless you behave like a politician. Voters are just as two-faced as the representatives they complain about.
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#133Computer criminals (especially the commercial variety) and foreign intelligence agents must be drooling right about now. If something like this becomes law, it's only a matter of time until a mass-breach gives, e.g., China or Russia the dirty laundry of thousands of politicians and business leaders in one fell swoop. I don't think I need to spell out what that would mean for what's left of democracy in the USA. I'm c…
but why do you think that 3 letters such as the FBI, DEA, or the NSA or CIA will stop using strong encryption?
do you really think that the DHS will just break its own encryption because of some laws?
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the long term consequence of legally dismantling our Constitution (which is the US equivalent to "company values", both in terms of how often they are invoked and by how often the same people ignore them) is that it dramatically reduces our soft power on the world stage. Right now China is engaging in textbook "secret war" with Hong Kong as well as a variety of other human rights abuses. It used to be that we,…
But now? How can we hold a higher ground than China when our own police forces use the very same tactics against our own protesters? How can we accuse the other side of building concentration camps when we have our own? It's called having protestors in the first place. China wouldn't let you hear about it, or all you get is distorted information, which means you don't know what's going on in their society.
Like our protests?
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#135I'm from TN. It's no surprise to me that they also target DNS over HTTPS. Marsha Blackburn has long been in the pocket of large internet providers. She successfully stopped a large city here in TN from expanding their own successful municipal broadband.
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#136Democratic nations are drifting more and more away from the wills of their people. How can this be changed?
I think the majority of people would prefer if encryption weren't a thing - as they believe it's primarily or exclusively used by criminals to evade law enforcement.
If most people want X, and our elected officials are working on making X a reality, then isn't democracy working just fine?
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#137Perhaps conservatives will find compelling a comparison to the second amendment. When crypto was outlawed, only outlaws will have crypto. The letter I sent to my senators is as follows: I care deeply about the safety and security of my fellow Americans. I understand the challenges that strong encryption poses for law enforcement. I don’t want the terrorists and pederasts to win. Yet, I strongly oppose Senate bill 405…
Given how controversial gun ownership is, I wouldn't use that as an example, it might undermine the case.
Depends on who the recipient is.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Our word used to mean something. > But now? How can we hold a higher ground than China when our own police forces use the very same tactics against our own protesters? How can we accuse the other side of building concentration camps when we have our own? But we’ve had things like this for a long time. The police have acted like they do for generations, we had concentration camps for Japanese people during World War…
> we had concentration camps for Japanese people during World War II I study WW2, and it's important to be factual. The correct term is internment camps. Japanese-Americans usually lost their property, but the purpose was to locate them in central locations, not to re-educate or liquidate them, as our enemies did to the Allies. For that time in history, it could be argued that the decision made sense. Japanese subs d…
Victor Davis Hanson says a lot of things, including that Iraq II was a good idea - he was a minor but still fairly significant public relations voice in the neoconservative bloc that pushed that war into existence, to the enormous detriment of US interests in the Middle East and worldwide.
As a classicist he's tolerable, if no more than that; in any century where the years count up instead of down, the man seems entirely at sea.
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#139> (R-SC)...(R-AR)...(R-TN) It's funny how you can read just that and know that the bill is going to be absurdly bad. Not even just bad in the philosophical/political sense but actually just bad as in not understanding the problem space, or not even formulated clearly or coherently.
Are you saying that Rs or people from southern states are incapable of critical and analytical thinking?
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those, like you and me, who have been touting open-source as a beacon of hope: I'm sorry, we're done for. First, anything that has more than a gig of memory and sells over a million units must be engineered according to the government's whims. That is pretty much ANYTHING useful nowadays. Hardware will now spy on you. And even though there is old hardware, and theoretically zero-trust programming techniques out t…
What if you put a text in your project: All lawsuits are in the jurisdiction of X Tribunal, situated in Switzerland or another privacy-friendly country?
I’m drawing a blank on the name of the show... there’s a series on either Netflix or Prime Video where a retired high ranking FBI officer walks the viewers through a bunch of crazy cases. The majority of them are foreign intelligence related. I think it’s meant as some kind of pro-FBI pro-American low key propaganda.
Anyway, as a Canadian, one of my key takeaways from watching it is that it doesn’t matter what country you’re in, nor your nationality, nor the nation where you’re committing crimes; if the FBI or similar large agency decides to target you, you’re going to at a minimum have a really bad time, and very potentially end up getting a free trip to the US to spend time in jail, even if you’ve never stepped foot in the country before.
The show has this “look at how far we’re willing to go to keep America safe!” vibe to it, but as an outsider I found it pretty horrifying.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declassified_(TV_series)