FlukasMcDoogle

Speechless. I am literally speechless. All this b/c "someday, encrypted data will matter in some terrorist event.... someday." Ok, let's be hypothetical here. Let's say terrorists / criminals stop using phones b/c of governments being able to break the encryption, and they instead use paper notes to pass messages. If they burn these notes, are we then going to require paper to be made that can be "un-burned?" I know that sounds ridiculous, but that's my point. It is ridiculous. It's not about safety. It never was about safety. If it was about safety, then he / the FBI would have come to the opposite conclusion after breaking the encryption revealed nothing useful. Only a few types of people keep trying for something if they didn't succeed at first. Someone who is insane is one, someone who is looking for a reason is another. They want a reason to do this. They want info, b/c that's the currency in Government these days. Info is power. And for people who don't care about it saying "I have nothing to hide," neither do I. But with power comes corruption, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The patriot act was abused by local law enforcement across the country to deal with non terrorism threats. So was PRISM. And on and on. It's about power. Power like that CAN and WILL be abused. Especially in this case. If there was a system in place with transparency, where freedom of information act inquiries can get info, with real warrants (not these NSA letters and secret FISA court warrant BS), then fine. BUT ONLY if there is oversight, publicly available transparent oversight. Not this man behind the curtain nothing to see here we have the best intentions wink wink nod nod trust us we're Uncle Sam and whatever else you can think of to throw onto this run on ranting sentence that has become a godawful atrocity of grammar. Whew, that was a long one, but I think I made my point. It'll never happen, but you give me regular constitutional warrants and transparent oversight, and I'll listen to what you say, James Comey. Thank GOD my post wasn't one of those emotionally, politically, charged rants like some people leave!!! Wait a second...