[Swordmaker]

Former national security official Richard Clarke weighs in on Apple's side in the Apple v. FBI case, saying that "The National Security Agency director and three past National Security Agency directors, a former CIA director, a former Homeland Security secretary have all said that they're much more sympathetic with Apple in this case. You really have to understand that the FBI director is exaggerating the need for this and is trying to build it up as an emotional case, organizing the families of the victims and all of that. And it's Jim Comey and the attorney general is letting him get away with it." — PING!

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[darkwing104]

Just install the Big Brother App

Once installed it can never be turned off or deleted.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.

[Iron Munro]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

[DesertRhino]

“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.

[Will88]

Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism, Clarke Says (Transcript)

Until the next big one hits.