[Swordmaker]

I can't link to the original article as it is not permitted by Copyright limitations. . . but this Mac Daily News summary and commentary of what the government is asking is the next best thing. Read the entire article at the original source as to why a government sanctioned back door is not a good idea.

[Swordmaker]

The Obama Administration is again demanding backdoors into digital encryption despite the fact that if you provide it for them, it will be only a short, very short, time before the bad guys also have the backdoors into everyone's devices as well. -- PING!

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[Rashputin]

Again with the Algore Clipper chip and/or backdoors to "protect us" ?

The same old crap without even the decency to put new lipstick on that pig.

Maybe if they worried about computers handling Secret and above messages not being in someones bathroom closet with the extra toilet paper I could take their trash as at least a decent joke.

[theBuckwheat]

I have a right to privacy of communications. In other contexts government is unabashed at eavesdropping and conducting surveillance where it claims that I “don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy.” If I take steps to encrypt my communications, I am reserving my right to communicate privately. Let them get a warrant if they want access.

Should the US government succeed in forcing companies doing business in the US to weaken their encryption, it will only give non-US companies and non-US customers an incentive to avoid buying or using any US product or service.

If there is any doubt, look at how short a time it took for someone to come out with a replacement for TrueCrypt once its weakness was documented.

When strong encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have strong encryption.

[IncPen]

It is useful to think of “The Government” as the stranger in the car next to you at a stoplight.

Would you let that stranger look through your phone, your finances, your texts to your wife?

You wouldn’t.

And you’d be tempted to let the SOB have it if you caught him doing it.

[dayglored]

Ultimately, the government's calls for backdoors into strong encryption are bullsh!t.

They can always resort to traditional means of decryption:

1. "Black-bag" decryption" -- being sneaky and using subterfuge rather than high-tech to gain the password.

2. "Rubber-hose decryption" -- beating the crap out of people until they give up the password.

The ONLY reason they want backdoors is they are LAZY SOBs. Let 'em work for it.

All hail (and all credit to) XKCD.COM.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

This from the same government that goes to extreme lengths to deny our legitimate inquiries into what it has been doing in our name. IRS, Fast and Furious, Bengazi and the list goes on.

[The Duke]

If two parties were to agree in advance that target1=tartet3 and target3=target2 and that every message starting with the letters ‘a’, ‘I’ or ‘m’ should be ignored then all the decryption in the world would not help.

[Gene Eric]

An honest man uses the front door.

[UCANSEE2]

Here is my question.

Why does a government that has a terrible track record in spying on foreigners insist on spying on it’s own citizens in the name of keeping out foreigners ?

[sten]

i’m sorry... but if they wish a backdoor, they must receive approval from each person they wish to eavesdrop on.

freedom of speech - Right to say what you want
freedom of association - Right to be with who you want

combined - Right to say what you want only to those you wish to associate with.

otherwise known as a RIGHT TO PRIVACY