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Obama at SXSW: ‘Absolutist view’ on digital privacy cannot prevail
The Washington Post ^ | March 11, 2016 | Mike Debonis

Posted on 03/12/2016 5:10:52 AM PST by John W

AUSTIN -- President Obama defended government efforts to preserve law enforcement access to digital devices Friday, telling a crowd that included many technology innovators that society cannot end up "fetishizing our phones above every other value."

Obama made his remarks during a keynote discussion at the yearly South by Southwest Interactive conference here, after being asked by Texas Tribune journalist Evan Smith to comment on the larger implications of the pending fight between the FBI and Apple over access to an iPhone used by one of the shooters in December's terrorist attack in San Bernardino.

"The question we now have to ask is," he added, "if technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system, or the encryption is so strong that there is no key, there is no door at all, then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot? What mechanism do we have available even to do simple things like tax enforcement? ... There has to be some concession to the need to be able to get into that information somehow."

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TOPICS: Japan; News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

But in the end we all have to remember anew, that it’s all about God, who is generous beyond belief but won’t excuse the guilty.


21 posted on 03/12/2016 5:52:50 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: John W

No.

Hell no.

L


22 posted on 03/12/2016 5:52:56 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

Obama isn’t even being honest methinks. He wants an easy omnisnoop capability. Not an old fashioned system of investigators and spies.

And the idea of embracing God as bulwark against the motive to general skulduggery? Never enters his head.


23 posted on 03/12/2016 5:55:36 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: All

I tell you what Øbongo - why don’t you talk about a subject that you know something about (the silence would be refreshing).


24 posted on 03/12/2016 6:03:46 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: John W

There has to be some concession to the need to be able to get into that information somehow.

About those School Records? Birth Certificate? Social Security Number?...


25 posted on 03/12/2016 6:07:07 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: John W

A brief refresher for the self appointed Constitutional Law lecturer.
That phone contains the personal and private property of the Citizen.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


26 posted on 03/12/2016 6:30:36 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: John W

FBI and Obama are stupid, they will drive people to use more sophisticated methods.

Like hidden disk, where your real data is encrypted but seemingly doesn’t exist. It is completely hidden and appears to be random bits on your drive.

It is actually going to be possible to have a virtual phone within your phone that no one even knows exists.

Not only can you not hack it, you won’t even know it is there to attempt to crack it in the first place.


27 posted on 03/12/2016 6:41:57 AM PST by dila813
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To: John W

Obama crapping in his own nest in front of the crowd that elected him. They could learn a lesson here but I doubt they will.


28 posted on 03/12/2016 6:48:49 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: John W

I say we give up the Obamaphones. Obamaphones need to be outlawed. Working people pay for Obamaphones for street animals to use to stage demonstrations to bring down our nation. We are paying for our own destruction.


29 posted on 03/12/2016 7:05:51 AM PST by abclily
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To: ctdonath2

Doesn’t the 4th amendment cover this?


30 posted on 03/12/2016 7:08:41 AM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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Trump is with Obama on this one.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/02/19/trump-boycott-apple-over-refusal-to-help-fbi/


31 posted on 03/12/2016 7:28:37 AM PST by Leto
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To: John W

telling a crowd that included many technology innovators that society cannot end up “fetishizing our phones above every other value.”

I make a fetish of LIBERTY
not my phone.

Obama has transformed America
into the Weimar Republic.

It won’t end well no matter what happens.


32 posted on 03/12/2016 7:33:22 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: eyeamok

Indeed Obama misses the good old days of the CCCP.


33 posted on 03/12/2016 8:51:35 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Leto

And on what other ones once he wins? That’s what worries me.


34 posted on 03/12/2016 10:09:18 AM PST by John W (Under One Year And Counting!)
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