FBI director says smartphone encryption hindering investigations 'across the board'

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  • Reply 21 of 30
    Fuck them, I’m glad they’re locked out. 
    GeorgeBMac
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  • Reply 22 of 30
    The FHI is displaying such "last century era" thinking. With literally everything on the verge of being integrated into a (artificial intelligence) network, keeping data tightly encrypted seems crucial! Breaking it open in hopes of prosecuting relatively few drug traffickers or terrorists is missing the forest for the trees. I feel governmental overreach is much more likely to adversely affect great numbers of people than the dangers which are always trotted out to defend their snooping spying ways. 
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  • Reply 23 of 30
    GeorgeBMacgeorgebmac Posts: 11,421member
    They are angry that the U.S. Constitution blocks them from spying on their enemies -- political and otherwise...

    Perhaps they should move to Russia.  Putin would welcome them and give them good jobs spying on us.
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  • Reply 24 of 30
    Encryption can be liken to a shredder—are they going to require shredder manufacturer to create a machine to unSHRED shredded papers?
    randominternetpersoncgWerks
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  • Reply 25 of 30
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    There is only one solution ... pigeons.
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  • Reply 26 of 30
    freerangefreerange Posts: 1,597member
    Hey Wray - do your F’n job with the resources you have! WTF did you do BEFORE we had smartphones? They weren’t invented to make your job easier.
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  • Reply 27 of 30
    I think there are good arguments to be made in favor of shutting down these extralegal agencies. They represent a level of Federal government overreach that has been actively undermining individual constitutionally protected rights and freedoms for far too long and with every new power they acquire and build into case law, freedoms are eroded just that much more.
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    electrosoft
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  • Reply 28 of 30
    cgWerkscgwerks Posts: 2,952member
    They are angry that the U.S. Constitution blocks them from spying on their enemies -- political and otherwise...
    The Constitution technically blocks them... if/when they get caught... and people care enough to make a stink so something actually gets done about it. (Which means they get away with all sorts of un-Constitutional baloney.) 

    I think there are good arguments to be made in favor of shutting down these extralegal agencies. They represent a level of Federal government overreach that has been actively undermining individual constitutionally protected rights and freedoms for far too long and with every new power they acquire and build into case law, freedoms are eroded just that much more.
    I think the problem is more that we've let Congress get out of control so that there isn't enough oversight, more than anything. The 3-letter agencies have been turned more into political machines of corruption than doing what they are supposed to be doing.
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  • Reply 29 of 30
    I always put privacy over criminal investigations because the feds (and any government agency) may employ individuals who may eventually have criminal intent themselves. Like a totalitarian state. Consider if anyone could bypass an encrypted phone containing sensitive information hazardous to society if known. An information doomsday could not be stopped!
    cgWerks
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  • Reply 30 of 30
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    Next they will start thinking about totally untraceable burner phones ... 
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