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To: glorgau

There’s nothing on your phone they want. Calm down and think objectively.

Any government can run amok, and everybody has to keep an eye on that. The problem is not the legal capacity to get the information, but what they’re going to do with it. There are many terrorist attacks that have been thwarted because of information, and others that could have been (I think the most recent French attack is among them) if there had been more access to information.

Potentially, this could be used to attack anybody if suddenly the government decides they don’t like them - for example, if Islamists get into power in the US, which in my opinion is not at all unlikely, especially if either Trump or Sanders gets elected.

But at the moment, the FBI is on our side, and I think it’s a little alarming that they can’t get into this. One of the problems is that the FBI is way behind in computer resources, including both hardware and trained people. I gave a class once to an FBI office, years and years ago, and not only did they have outdated equipment but they had a ton of civilian employees who could barely spell the word “computer” and were afraid of it, and a lot of agents who somehow seemed to think it wasn’t going to impact their lives and maybe somebody else would handle it anyway. You know, the Hillary Clinton attitude...


39 posted on 02/09/2016 3:17:37 PM PST by livius
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To: livius

Your argument seems to boil down to “Hey, just trust them, they are from the government!”

That’s not going to win people over I think. I have never heard of a government being given a power that it had the capability to abuse and then NOT abusing it. It’s as inevitable as winter following summer.

You also neglect to address the issue that, if we make our data less secure so that the government can get access, we also make it less secure so that ANYONE can get access, including criminals and foreign governments. There is no way to only make it less secure for just our own government. You leave the door open, anyone can get in.


57 posted on 02/09/2016 3:40:00 PM PST by Boogieman
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