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Apple Backs Open Letter to Senators Criticizing Draft Encryption Bill
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They either don't completely understand the ramifications of their bill or worse, are stubbornly determined to ram this through, damn the consequences.
Corporate personhood - is Apple looking out in all Americans' interest? Have corporations typically shown such altruism before? No, it's usually the bottom line that is the only factor. But companies usually want government to stay out of business, despite the same companies wanting to change government for their benefit (usually at everyone else's expense).
I am perfectly fine relying on the police to do their job without sacrificing my privacy. They'll find a way! Calling me names does not change history. For every reason you have to trust the government I can come up with dozens not to. Ever go the DMV? How about going to a Veterans Hospital? How about just about anything government with the exception of the military? What is amazing is that you can justify any trust whatsoever. What less than 15% of the people trust congress. So I am not alone and no tin foil hats are needed to understand reality.
Absolutely yes. Lock it down for everyone. I don't want all those bad entities you named having easy access to my data.
Also, you realize there are other countries on this planet right? It's mostly just plain US citizens that are subject to US laws. So removing decryption on phones made by a US company really only make the phones of plain US citizens insecure. Globally operating bad guys will be entirely unimpacted because they'll just use devices made elsewhere.
Ben Franklin was an adult, and I'm pretty sure there was no tin foil hat for him to wear, when he said "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." It's solid advice. It's a shame you fail to grasp the concept of what freedom actually is, or worse, you're truly against it. Seriously, the only intelligent, logical adults supporting insecure encryption are bad entities. What's your agenda?
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I'd hate to live in a world where the government has complete power over me. Private information should always be above the law. When I'm not free to THINK what I want, including writing those thoughts down because I wasn't gifted a perfect memory, then I'm not free whatsoever. Privacy is the very last bit of freedom you can have. Once it's gone, you have literally nothing left.
What I find amazing, and this is more of a general comment on out current times than anything else, is how one particular party has sought to feed the idea that 'government' is the problem, and yet they want to keep their hold on 'government', and also keep the populace of the country crap scared out of their wits. The resurgence of laughably patriotic anti-government groups and that certain party flaunting their mismanagement and deliberate treasonous acts of obstruction and, ironically perhaps, wasting HUGE sums of money, also ironically PROVING that government doesn't work; is destroying anything that this country stood for, and making other nations uneasy for the future.
This is, on a larger scale, a bit like the extremist Islamic groups that took over Iran after the US puppet Shah was excised from that country.
The largest differences are that this country has a huge military, a stranglehold (so far) on internet traffic, a currency that much of the rest of the world is based on, a hub for many flights, and a really obscenely huge nuclear arsenal, among other 'goodies'.
The 'kill encryption' jag is just another front on the war against America from WITHIN! And the sheeple are being herded from one hysterically overblown event to another.
It's like the beginning of a huge dystopian movie, except it's not a movie, this time...
This is, on a larger scale, a bit like the extremist Islamic groups that took over Iran after the US puppet Shah was excised from that country.
The largest differences are that this country has a huge military, a stranglehold (so far) on internet traffic, a currency that much of the rest of the world is based on, a hub for many flights, and a really obscenely huge nuclear arsenal, among other 'goodies'.
The 'kill encryption' jag is just another front on the war against America from WITHIN! And the sheeple are being herded from one hysterically overblown event to another.
It's like the beginning of a huge dystopian movie, except it's not a movie, this time...