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Senator Planning Legislation to Punish Companies That Don't Unlock Encrypted Devices
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Should one only write "their" senator, or can one write any senator. I'd happily buy a 100 count roll of stamps to put a bump in this guys interns' mail bin for a day.
Bernie does at least acknowledge the potential dangers. And to be fair, so does Rubio. All the rest of them are calling for full, unfettered cooperation.
Unfortunately it's both sides-Rubio loves the NSA just as much as Obama, and a lot happened with Bill and Bush too...
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Well if we're going that far, add the first to the list.
Are you seriously wondering why decade old investigation techniques are no longer sufficient in our ever digital society?
And I for one disagree with both of them on this issue.
It's a dangerous precedent-the thing that most people over look is that giving them the grand master key today, is Wondering if they will give it back. Apple has already given the FBI all the iCloud information. It's not just the good guys that will use this exploit too, the bad guys (hackers scammers id thieves) will find it, or buy it-that's no good for any of us in the long term.
All the government is making me do is use MORE encryption now.
Nor did they mention that Burr has been working with Senator Feinstein (D-CA) on similar legislation:
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/fbi-encryption-james-comey-tech-companies/
Or, that Feinstein has already been quoted:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/sen-diane-feinstein-calls-on-apple-to-obey-court-order/
In an interview with PBS NewsHour, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.), Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, called on Apple to comply with the court order, arguing that the information on the phone could prevent additional acts of terrorism. She further stated that if Apple refused to obey the order, it would likely lead to legislation that would force the issue.
Take off your partisan blinders. You might learn something.
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Would you be surprised if I told you that Senator Feinstein (D-CA) has already warned Apple this would happen if they didn't comply?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/sen-diane-feinstein-calls-on-apple-to-obey-court-order/
As I wrote above: take off your partisan blinders. You might learn something.
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You can write any Senator, but their staff is likely to ignore you if you aren't a constituent.
Of course, they are only slightly less likely to ignore you if you are.
Tbqh so do all the Republican candidates.
"He's also claimed that district attorneys have complained to him about encryption as they are "beginning to get to a situation where they can't prosecute cases."
Yes, I see it every day in the news. "Your honor, we can't get into their iPhone. That's where all of the evidence is. There is no longer physical evidence. It's all digital."
Eff these guys and their stupidity.
Yes, I see it every day in the news. "Your honor, we can't get into their iPhone. That's where all of the evidence is. There is no longer physical evidence. It's all digital."
Eff these guys and their stupidity.
Expect no less from North Carolina government. Total legislative looneyville there.
Richard Burr has a challenger Greg Brannon.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/po...mns-blogs/under-the-dome/article50894050.html
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I expect no less from him.
It's nice to see some idealism has still survived, blaming one or the other party, but both the political parties that have wrangled the stranglehold on power in this country have, at every opportunity since their creation, expressed and honed their love for total power & wealth schemes, broad unconstitutional trampling of civil liberties, aggression and assaults on the public, unlimited access and control over their opponents and citizens lives, and their penchant for authoritarianism (but don't call it that) all blamed on bogeyman of the hour.
You can imagine that we deserve it, due to the army of inept "people persons!" we vote for, but the parties and their monied interests and electoral royalty determine who you will vote for, long before the people of the country get to vote. There is no alternative available on offer. No marketplace of ideas. There is a script, and the parties ensure the nation sticks to it. Calling the U.S. in any way a representative democracy at this point is so unrealistic it's absurd. The U.S. is a nation of two parties, each of which wishes it were a one party state, as long as they're the party, and both parties behave like it.
Voting for a handful of kings once every 4 years who have no competency in the matters they're tasked with voting on (the 1/3 of the time they show up to their jobs to vote at all) doesn't "represent" anyone, but the (in both parties) most conservative party brass and the contributor who coughed up the $ to write & promote the bill. Not the interest of the people, or the nation. Legalizing this corruption doesn't make it not corrupt.
The U.S. has no system for rational constructive decision-making in its leadership, and a few hundred million preventing there from being one created.
Using 9/11 and 'tersts as an excuse to enact emergency powers to create the Patriot Act crushing the constitution, and then blaming Democrats when you notice your 4th amendment rights have been shredded, is just as absurd as blaming Republicans for creating the patriot act when the Obama admin then grabbed it from Bush, and instead of righting the wrong, turned around and used it to its maximum potential. We're far, faaar beyond simple, single-sided blame solving any of these problems at this point.
You can imagine that we deserve it, due to the army of inept "people persons!" we vote for, but the parties and their monied interests and electoral royalty determine who you will vote for, long before the people of the country get to vote. There is no alternative available on offer. No marketplace of ideas. There is a script, and the parties ensure the nation sticks to it. Calling the U.S. in any way a representative democracy at this point is so unrealistic it's absurd. The U.S. is a nation of two parties, each of which wishes it were a one party state, as long as they're the party, and both parties behave like it.
Voting for a handful of kings once every 4 years who have no competency in the matters they're tasked with voting on (the 1/3 of the time they show up to their jobs to vote at all) doesn't "represent" anyone, but the (in both parties) most conservative party brass and the contributor who coughed up the $ to write & promote the bill. Not the interest of the people, or the nation. Legalizing this corruption doesn't make it not corrupt.
The U.S. has no system for rational constructive decision-making in its leadership, and a few hundred million preventing there from being one created.
Using 9/11 and 'tersts as an excuse to enact emergency powers to create the Patriot Act crushing the constitution, and then blaming Democrats when you notice your 4th amendment rights have been shredded, is just as absurd as blaming Republicans for creating the patriot act when the Obama admin then grabbed it from Bush, and instead of righting the wrong, turned around and used it to its maximum potential. We're far, faaar beyond simple, single-sided blame solving any of these problems at this point.
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Don't put TJ up on that pedestal just yet. When it suited him, Jefferson ignored the constitution.
Totally agree. The current GA is doing all they can to run this state into the ground.
There's nothing more disturbing than an ignorant politician trying to gain votes by confusing the general public. It's all a political stunt.
2016 is the Year of "Will do anything for a Vote".
Why not spend more resources into making the FBI smarter, so they can track terrorists better?
2016 is the Year of "Will do anything for a Vote".
Why not spend more resources into making the FBI smarter, so they can track terrorists better?
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"Beginning to get to a situation where they can't prosecute cases."
Prosecuting is like calculus. I care more that you follow the rules and show your work then how hard you think it is.
Prosecuting is like calculus. I care more that you follow the rules and show your work then how hard you think it is.
Starting to wonder whether they built Apple Campus 2 in the wrong country.
Even Apple Inc. does not have power over the U.S. Government.
For protection, Apple will have to stop selling iPhones. So... there won't be an iPhone 7.
I always wondered how this iPhone thing would all end.
For protection, Apple will have to stop selling iPhones. So... there won't be an iPhone 7.
I always wondered how this iPhone thing would all end.
It can always take off if things don't work out here.
This face represents a government that has become the exact opposite of what the founding fathers envisioned. ”He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”...Benjamin Franklin.
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