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The Obama administration has continued flawed policies in many areas, especially those infringing on the 4th Amendment.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Deceptive title, unintentionally. FTA: "Instead, the Post reports, the “administration will continue trying to persuade companies that have moved to encrypt their customers’ data to create a way for the government to still peer into people’s data when needed for criminal or terrorism investigations.” While eschewing attempts to legislatively mandate that tech companies build backdoors into their services, the preside…
On the other hand, as long as backdoors remain out of legislation, those companies are still free to say "no".
Deceptive title, unintentionally. FTA: "Instead, the Post reports, the “administration will continue trying to persuade companies that have moved to encrypt their customers’ data to create a way for the government to still peer into people’s data when needed for criminal or terrorism investigations.” While eschewing attempts to legislatively mandate that tech companies build backdoors into their services, the preside…
I find it hilarious how often privacy advocates manage to forget that we've had this conversation before, and while the government can and has overstepped in many ways, lets not throw out the ability to investigate at all along the way.
Deceptive title, unintentionally. FTA: "Instead, the Post reports, the “administration will continue trying to persuade companies that have moved to encrypt their customers’ data to create a way for the government to still peer into people’s data when needed for criminal or terrorism investigations.” While eschewing attempts to legislatively mandate that tech companies build backdoors into their services, the preside…
Agreed, but it's still a massive improvement over mandating that all encryption used by citizens be thoroughly crippled. The status quo should be that the degree to which Government can intrude into citizens privacy is limited by law and subject to open public debate. We're not quite there yet, either in the US or here in the UK, but dropping the idea of crippled encryption is at least a step back from the brink even…
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On the other hand, as long as backdoors remain out of legislation, those companies are still free to say "no".
Many won't say no, because the advantage of having a government willing to look out for their bottom line is far too large to ignore for the sake of a few users.
I am surprised the petition has yet to reach 100k signatures. Is it optimistic to think that most of the tech community at least should recognize the significance of this? Even if you doubt its effect on real policy.
The Obama administration has continued flawed policies in many areas, especially those infringing on the 4th Amendment.
Government basically exists to maintain the status quo. Anyone who might really change anything really won't get far enough in order to. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I am surprised the petition has yet to reach 100k signatures. Is it optimistic to think that most of the tech community at least should recognize the significance of this? Even if you doubt its effect on real policy.
Disclosure: I work in the netsec industry and only signed this because HN brought it to my attention in the rare spare moments between my daily tasks. To use an analogy, I feel like I can't worry about putting out the forest fire if my house is already on fire in the midst of it. At the same time, I'm throwing money at someone that says they'll help me free up more time to do the forest fire fighting. We'll see if I've made a grave mistake in how I prioritize things.
I am surprised the petition has yet to reach 100k signatures. Is it optimistic to think that most of the tech community at least should recognize the significance of this? Even if you doubt its effect on real policy.
I think most people are just too lazy/paranoid to sign petitions. Tech or not.
The Obama administration has continued flawed policies in many areas, especially those infringing on the 4th Amendment.
A lot of these policies continue because they're considered optimal/necessary by the layer of thinktanks and technocrats that feed Washington its data. I doubt any administration could change them, no matter what was said on their campaign trail.