FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter

Post by allworknoplay » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 5:09 PM UTC

FreedomToCreate wrote: post #64

allworknoplay wrote: post #53

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Security vs privacy is a false dichotomy here. Backdoors can help law enforcement achieve some goals but weaken overall security. The debate is security vs security, and framing it any other way reflects either willful deceit or ignorance.

Encryption could also help obstruct justice and let criminals get away with things. Most people won't understand till it impacts them personally but imagine if you are robbed of all your money and the answer of who did it lies in a computer you are able to get your hand on. Wouldn't you love it if the police had a backdoor now. You are wrong in framing the debate as security vs security. Its like everything else when…

Of course criminals can use encryption. I didn't say they couldn't. I said it was security vs. security, because there are security issues on both sides. Duh?

Post by justin_vanw » Sun, Feb 28, 2016, 5:20 AM UTC

BWStearns wrote: post #139

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That is a clever analogy. I think we are fine though, we are safer than ever before. We don't need to extend government snooping power, because there is no need to do so. If someone disagrees, that is fine, but that is why we have a speed governor. People have always complained about decisions being made too slowly, but they have never been made faster, if anything they are made more quickly now than ever before. Con…

When they only met a few times for a few weeks they were passing laws that were readable in whole by individuals during those sessions. The scope of their responsibilities has increased and I expect them to apply a correspondingly high degree of effort. I want the legislature to be passing laws rolling back the security state, I want them to cancel or rework programs that don't work across the board. They can't do th…

Again, you seem to think we are getting 'worse' government, but we have the best government we have ever had. Just because you can see it close up (in a historical sense), you are aware of it's warts. But I assure you, the governments of the past had all the problems we have today, and many, many, many more. If you were to get in a time machine and go back even 50 years, you would be shocked at how corrupt the government was then compared to now.

Stop with your short sighted, historically ignorant whining already.

Re: FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter

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