Prosecutors press on with 'think of the children' campaign against encryption in iOS, Android

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  • Reply 61 of 69
    I find the name "think of the children" a bit of a dumb name for a campaign that wants to stop you from securely encrypting photos of your children incase you ever loose your phone.

    So yes think of the children, don't put backdoors in encryption for paedophiles to exploit.
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  • Reply 62 of 69
    badmonkbadmonk Posts: 1,358member
    The hacker community would exploit any backdoor within days. These guys are fools. Even the children want to be rid of them.
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  • Reply 63 of 69
    john.bjohn.b Posts: 2,742member
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    Originally Posted by ruir View Post

     

    Honestly, everyone who has two neurons has to look behind the smokescreen. This just seems PR at their finest hour to foreign people abroad not stop buying american products, and to people, both at home and abroad be lulled into a false sense of security. Will you tell me Microsoft, Cisco and Apple, true "american" firms, and that built their might and power being in bed with the establishment, and having contracts with the DoD, do not have backdoors??? Not really? You certainly are insulting my intelligence here. 


     

    Cisco does build in back doors, and they do get exploited:  Attackers are hijacking critical networking gear from Cisco, company warns | Ars Technica

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  • Reply 64 of 69
    pmzpmz Posts: 3,433member

    How did they catch criminals before they could illegally hack their devices....

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  • Reply 65 of 69
    pmzpmz Posts: 3,433member

    Its just a show. This is for planting the idea that they can't already decrypt anything they want. Of course they can, and do regularly. They know no sensible human race would ever give them legal authority on it...they just want the idea planted that they can't.

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  • Reply 66 of 69
    rcfarcfa Posts: 1,124member
    The fact that spooks don't know what people think also means investigating with one hand tied behind the back.
    Law enforcement is supposed to INVESTIGATE, they are not supposed to just KNOW.
    Back in the day before telephones, Internet, etc. they also had to solve and investigate crime, no electronic surveillance, either.
    Law enforcement just got bad and lazy over the years: they just want to be above the law and access whatever they please to access; constitution be damned.
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  • Reply 67 of 69
    geekmeegeekmee Posts: 657member
    Where in the Constitution does it say..."Think of the children"?
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  • Reply 68 of 69
    eightzeroeightzero Posts: 3,207member
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    Where in the Constitution does it say..."Think of the children"?



    Well...article 2, section 8 has a congressional power of "common defense and general welfare."

     

    A harder question (perhaps) might be "Where in the Constitution does it say individuals have a right of Privacy?" I think I know, but there are some who disagree....

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  • Reply 69 of 69
    linkmanlinkman Posts: 1,070member
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    Well...article 2, section 8 has a congressional power of "common defense and general welfare."

     

    A harder question (perhaps) might be "Where in the Constitution does it say individuals have a right of Privacy?" I think I know, but there are some who disagree....


    Amendment IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

     

    This can certainly be construed as a right to privacy. It is not verbatim a "right to privacy," but in many cases can be argued to provide even more protections than just privacy affords. That is, until the Constitution starts getting trampled on (R.I.P. 2nd amendment)...

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