Apple and Google are KILLING KIDS with encryption, whine (U.S. Government) lawyers

The Register ^ | Aug 12, 2015 | Iain Thomson

[dayglored]

Won't someone please THINK ABOUT THE CHILLLLLLLDRENNNN!

Yeah, right, they want to take away our encryption because they're thinking about the children. Uh-huh...

[dayglored]

Possible ping list interest....

[dayglored]

You don't need no steeenkin' encryption, says the gubmint ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Scrambler Bob]

“The new encryption policies of Apple and Google have made it harder to protect people from crime,”

Which means we want to read all your stuff to look for a crime.

[UCANSEE2]

The reason the government does not want us to be able to communicate in private is because they know that sooner or later, we will be trying to oust these communist/socialist usurpers.

[catnipman]

When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.

Just like “gun control”.

[BenLurkin]

"The new encryption policies of Apple and Google have made it harder easier to protect people from crime government."

[JRandomFreeper]

Government isn't there to protect citizens from crime.

Government is there to prosecute crimes.... under rules established hundreds of years ago.

Stick with what is authorized, government. Don't over-reach.

Some may get away with it, but that how it plays out.

Better that 10 guilty go free than one be falsely convicted.

/johnny

[SgtHooper]

Meanwhile, they are cracking skulls of babies at PP.

[Empire View]

The authorities have lost the trust of the people. Had more competence and honesty been displayed in recent years, people would be more amenable to allowing govt. backdoors. The problem is that we can’t trust these guys to only use the backdoors in situations like the article brings up.

[Zeppo]

Children are being raped, citizens murdered, and lost souls trafficked for sex thanks to the feckless Barack Obama whose policies have made it all possible.

[dfwgator]

Translation: We can’t spy on Tea Partiers.

[DakotaGator]

We The People have not granted any level of government blanket ability to read our correspondence or listen to our conversations. We The People have reserved privacy of our communications to ourselves.

We The People have granted various levels of government investigatory powers pursuant to a valid warrant. And those powers are adequate.

Government is the problem here. It’s that simple.

[Flick Lives]

When a government announces it want to doing something “for the children”, it means its intentions are nefarious.

[Farmer Dean]

Made it hard to track your income and spending habits.THAT’S what they worry about,that dollars might slip through their grasp.Kids getting raped-they couldn’t give two sh-ts about that.

[Mastador1]

I couldn’t make myself read the whole article, I as my son would say when he was three “can’t want to!” But did they manage to work guntrol in there too?

[dayglored]

Yep, agree right down the line.

Great to see you online Johnny. How ya doin'? You're still in my prayers.

[dayglored]

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

Yep, 'zactly.

[ctdonath2]

Yup. Whole thing can be described in just a few characters. Heck, when the patent for RSA expired the owner celebrated by giving away T-shirts with it printed on:

[Still Thinking]

Won't someone please THINK ABOUT THE CHILLLLLLLDRENNNN! Yeah, right, they want to take away our encryption because they're thinking about the children. Uh-huh...

Every time I hear one of these "Can't we please ignore that pesky Constitution??? It's for the cheeeeeelrunn, after all" schemes, I don't get it. Do they not think there were children in Colonial times? Apparently THOSE children weren't so fragile as to require unfettered government for survival. Why would I want to save such genetic mistakes anyway? They'd probably vote Democrat and spawn a new generation requiring erasure of whatever still exists of the Constitution by then. I really don't see the upside. Seems like we should just grieve for them and get busy replacing them, not repeal the Constitution.