Obama puts down his encrypted phone long enough to tell us: Knock it off with the encryption

The Register ^ | 11 Mar 2016 at 23:30 | Chris Williams

[Brian Griffin]

“Whatever Feds have as a backdoor a thief will enter through, tech proverb.”

Not so.

One can have a device-based key, so you would need the device itself.

Or you could have a two-part key, one part with the manufacturer and another part with the NSA.

Or you could have a three-part key, one part with the manufacturer and another part with the FBI and a third part with the NSA.

One could also have the user enter a portion of the key, which might be saved to the manufacturer’s website.

So even if a Communist lackey gave the PLA every key code entered in Apple’s factory in China, the phone would still be secure against criminals.

Apple could also enter codes in the USA.

Obviously, a financial institution has the code(s) to my chipped VISA card.

Is my chipped VISA card secure against thieves? Yes.

[Brian Griffin]

Yes, Congress can force Apple to make government breakable phones.

“The Congress shall have Power...To raise and support Armies”

Congress can draft the Apple executives, programmers and engineers with US citizenship or US presence into an army.

And Congress can have them shot for not following orders.

[ExGeeEye]

I champion the right of the guiltiest of miscreants to conceal evidence from the rest of the world.

Yes, that includes terrorists.

Because in championing rights, as soon as you make an exception against anyone, you open the door to someone making an exception against you.

[Cyberman]

Obama thanks you for your support.