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Senate Draft Encryption Bill Called 'Absurd,' 'Dangerous,' and Technically Inept
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She's not criminally corrupt; but if incompetence was a crime, she'd be one of the lords of the flies in the kingdom of willful ignorance : AKA Congress.
No need for malice when we have incompetence as our master.
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So, being old is an excuse for being a dangerous legislator? I don't think so. I'm sure you can make it to 82 without potentially cause major damage to your own country... I'm anti-agist, I believe anyone, at any age can be informed on any subject; it's complacency (and sometimes arrogance) that make many older people less agile, not ability.
There is arrogance at both ends of our existence; young or old, we believe we can learn nothing from anyone else. Many disasters have come from this.
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Good luck with that. It's impossible to get the ranters off their homemade soap boxes or to make much sense. Feinstein no more "wrote" this bill than I wrote "War and Peace."
Dangerous legislator?
Did you just wake up or something?
Because you missed some really dangerous legislation in the recent few decades.
If you're an American, you know how the system works, whining about it here won't make it any better.
(You are the One: thank you for posting an analysis)
If you explained in a previous post what was wrong with the proposed legislation, I missed it.
If you explained in a previous post what was wrong with the proposed legislation, I missed it.
You're right of course, but I thought your book was a little long.
"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!" - John Adams
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When people ask me what my political position is, I tell them to look up Diane Feinstein's position and mine will be the opposite of that. She has the lowest Conservative Review score of anyone at 0%. She needs to reboot her political career in North Korea.
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Time for a second American Revolution.
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She was a disgrace way before this bill, and has been so her entire political career.
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Don't forget all the software development that would leave the US for overseas, and then people would sideload that stuff anyway. These people are morons.
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You forgot empress Merkel destroying Germany. I don't think these "leaders" realise how angry people have been for quite a while now.
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She is the typical far left winger that thinks regular people are idiots and they need their lives to be run by people like her. No, thanks. She has a Conservative Review score of 0%, the lowest of any politician, BTW.
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She is not frightened. She is totally corrupt. Over the years, she has made sure that all the stuff she pushed on other people did not apply to her (example: she pushed gun control on everyone, but made sure she got a CCW permit).
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Time to bring in direct democracy, Switzerland style. The current system no longer works.
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This would destroy Apple, as all the security conscious people would chose Android hardware for the ability to sideload a secure OS from an overseas server.
We are kidding here but one day in the future brain reading will be possible. To some extent it's already possible in science labs.
When tech companies care more about social issues than protecting the privacy of their customers, they basically prove what you just said.
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"The standards for "developed nation" are rapidly changing" - translation, Europe has moved to the left, so the US should as well. Not all change is good. Europe politics has created a ton of problems that the left-leaning media will not talk about.
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It is very difficult to control lobbyists or plain influence. My only solution at the moment is introducing direct democracy, Switzerland style.
Bernie is slightly to the left of Nixon, who, by today's standards, is a radical liberal.
Yeah, but good luck finding any reading material, once you get out in the general public.
Nothing different than what they wrote.
They don't realize they render every phone insecure?
So AES or SHA256 would no longer be available. The NSA helped design SHA256 and also certified versions of AES for encryption.
What prevents people from running an encryption program on top of the OS to encrypt files individually?
Oh, then we are all criminals right?
Beware of a government that seeks to criminalize behavioral norms.
Wanting to keep your stuff private and secure is a behavioral norm.
This is way off-topic, but you're also way off-base here. Most European countries have moved to the right since the 70s. Don't kid yourself that Europe is some freakish socialist land and that the US is normality. Just look up the countries that have universal health care world-wide: the US is virtually the only developed country without a comprehensive policy. Or for an even better example, look at paid maternity leave. That one's a shocker.
But I must say, I'm unclear what this has to do with encryption on the iPhone.
What votes were counted to get that CR score? Without seeing that, how would people know what your political positions are?
Because "your people", whoever they are, don't have enough power, and "other people" have too much?
You haven't actually said anything whatsoever about whatever policies you care about. But, if Feinstein is way worse than Sanders, then, I'm guessing that gun control is your big issue. Chances are I disagree with you. Who knows, perhaps you think I'm a disgrace. Perhaps you ought to consider that other people have their opinions, just like you do.
I think you and I agree that there are a lot of smart programmers all over the world now. Quite apparently, not everybody in DC understands that.
No you won't
Users will say this now, but they will be using iPhone's the same they use Android devices today knowing their info can be legally got at...
If the bill passes then that would basically mean everyone is a criminal..... What good are laws if u can not bring everyone to justice ? That's where we will be heading.
Encryption, up to a point, but cross this point, and it should be up to the law....
What are u trying to do ? Put forensics companies out of business?
(I like it better when our phone weren't encrypted.. At least people would be rational..) How far is, too far ?
If you look at the comment I replied to, it was making a general political point on how the US is being left behind as a "modern country" - that type of comment always refers to Europe.
EU 30% quota for women in boardrooms, Germany 30% quota for women at universities (in STEM courses they will push out men with better grades than them), Sweden will pay you 80% of your wages for up to five years if you are unemployed, laughable prison sentences, clients (mostly male) penalised for hiring prostitutes (mostly female) while the prostitutes are not penalised (blatant feminism), 25% sales tax in Scandinavian countries, support for illegal immigrants who are there in massive numbers - I could go on forever. You are the one that is off base if you don't think that Europe keeps moving to the left, at least on social issues.
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She is a left wing authoritarian who thinks that she is entitled to push everyone around (while making sure that the rules do not apply to her.)
Because this class of politicians are utterly corrupt and they are trampling the Constitution, who they have sworn to uphold. BTW, they don't represent my group or your group. Right now, they represent themselves, their donors and their lobbyists.
