Author Topic: You can't stop the (NSA) signal!  (Read 771 times)

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Offline Libertas

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Re: You can't stop the (NSA) signal!
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2014, 12:33:57 PM »
Note this comment from the FBI guy:

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He suggested that it would take a major event, such as a terrorist attack, to cause the pendulum to swing back toward giving authorities access to a broad range of digital information.

As if they're not above to manufacturing one of those.


ETA - also I'm pretty sure there are laws that prohibit commercial encryption that the Feddy Bears don't have a universal key to. Maybe that's just export restrictions, I dunno.  But I agree with Libertas it's optimistically naive to think this will keep State Almighty's nose out of things.
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