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Posted on 03/14/2016 2:49:11 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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David Greene talks to former national security official Richard Clarke about the fight between Apple and the FBI. The FBI wants an iPhone that was used by one of the San Bernardino shooters unlocked.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
. . .
GREENE: Disrupting terrorist plots was Richard Clarke's mission for years. And we're adding his voice this morning in the ongoing debate over whether Apple should design a way for the government to break into that iPhone. Richard Clarke led counterterrorism efforts for two presidents - Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
RICHARD CLARKE: . . .Under the Obama administration, for example, we've said we're not going to torture people. You know, we could, at the far extreme to make the FBI's job easier, put ankle bracelets on everybody so that we'd know where everybody was all the time. That's a ridiculous example, but my point is encryption and privacy are larger issues than fighting terrorism.
GREENE: But can you just explain why you would compare, you know, a company helping the government design a way to unlock an iPhone to something extreme as torture and ankle bracelets? I mean, that sounds like a very extreme jump.
CLARKE: No, the point I'm trying to make is there are limits. And what this is is a case where the federal government, using a 1789 law, is trying to compel speech. And courts have ruled in the past, appropriately, that the government cannot compel speech. What the FBI and the Justice Department are trying to do is to make code writers at Apple - to make them write code that they do not want to write that will make their systems less secure.
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Great video. Thanks.
It is ironic that they are so scared of the *real* reasons that they want to break all encryption, that they cannot even mention them, so use fairly bogus reasons, like cp and terrorism, to try and get the public on their side.
The first thing that has them shaking in their boots are corporations and the very wealthy, secretly transferring vast amounts of wealth around the world, almost certainly for nefarious reasons. Since so much money is “virtual”, it is easy to do.
Another thing are “assassination pools”, where anonymous persons and organizations can essentially take out murder contracts, generating so much money in the pool for a given target that it can almost guarantee there will be attempts on their life. (For example, say a hundred people are willing to pay $1,000 to have you killed. Eventually the “purse” becomes so great that any number of thugs will try to kill you.
Of course, once you lose national sovereignty to the terrorists and are scrambling to stay alive another day you might wish these priorities had been reversed.
“You know, we could, at the far extreme to make the FBI’s job easier, put ankle bracelets on everybody so that we’d know where everybody was all the time”
Actually you already have this. You carry it everywhere. And it is called, a “cell phone”. And that is exactly what they intend to do with it.
There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting. -Tuco. The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
Until the next big one hits.
It’s also important to note that the guy who originally created the “pool” idea was eventually arrested by the feds on what may have been trumped up charges. After a brief trial, he was convicted and sort of vanished.
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