They want more tools to go after the Bad Guys.
And yet they know all about how bad Hillary, Obama, Brennan and Comey are. And they don’t go after them
Exactly. Which tells me everything I need to know.
This.
And yet they know all about how bad Hillary, Obama, Brennan and Comey are. And they don’t go after them
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Getting Hillary, Obama, Brennen, and Comey via a ‘backdoor’ is an image gone too far.
They want more tools to go after the Bad Guys.
And yet they know all about how bad Hillary, Obama, Brennan and Comey are. And they don’t go after them
And also they knew about every single mass terrorist attack and did nothing. Breaking encryption codes would not have changed a thing.
9/11, Boston Bomber......
From a technical standpoint, the cat is already out of the bag. Putting back doors in social media encryption is a fool's errand. First, terrorist cells would be communicating point to point. They can encrypt and decrypt outside social media, only using the internet for transport. An analogy might be: it doesn't matter if you force the post office to only carry transparent envelops, if the sender and receiver are going to encrypt the letter before it is mailed.
Intentionally weakening data privacy - and back doors are a weakness - is inviting more criminal behavior. Once hackers know it is possible to crack the encryption, access a "back door" - they will make every effort (and their resources are not to be dismissed) to discover it and exploit it.
“They want more tools to go after the Bad Guys.”
Why is a back door needed? The intended viewers of encrypted data know how to decrypt it. Government can get those people to decrypt it for them.