If I own it, I don't want anyone else to have access to it. Period. It's called a right to privacy. It may not be explicitly stated in the Constitution, but SCOTUS said the Constitution implicitly granted such a right against governmental intrusion in the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Amendments.
What a great graph. 1% for science spending. No wonder we’re in trouble.
There are limited functions the Federal government is allowed by the Constitution to carry out (a national defense being one of them). There’s no need for the Feds to control education, science spending or housing (just for starters). Much of our national government is basically taxation and spending gone completely hog wild.
Comey writes in the book that, when it comes to terrorism, crime, and other scourges "the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees."
"I found it appalling that the tech types couldn't see this," wrote Comey. "I would frequently joke with the FBI 'Going Dark' team assigned to seek solutions, 'Of course the Silicon Valley types don't see the darkness -- they live where it's sunny all the time and everybody is rich and smart.'"
I'm sure the Silicon Valley types joke with each other about how the FBI doesn't see the darkness of offering a backdoor to mobile operating systems.
They (the FBI) live where they get their every whim and everybody is subservient to them.
As you can see in this article, once a new Federal agency or department is established, it’s nearly impossible to get rid of it. Government is the definition of “feature creep”: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fbi-founded
That’s reason enough to cut budgets, fire people and remain ever vigilant against those who continually push for more, more, more government.
Many federal agencies have been eliminated over the years:
If you take a look at the vast majority of these "defunct" agencies, they are defunct in name only. Their power, regulations and personnel have been rolled into another agency with a different name - and in most cases, expanded.
The country has grown, its needs have changed, and this shows that the structure of the government has been, at least somewhat, responsive to that.
A growing government is not on the face of it good or bad, except to people who have strong ideological views. Whether government growth is good or bad depends on whether the growth makes society better off by meeting the needs of society in a way that is better than feasible alternatives. To me, that's an empirical question that should be studied, not a question that we answer based on our tribal allegiances.
I can almost guarantee Apple will get their hands on one for analysis.
How? I'm not saying they won't and I'm sure they want to, but I'd think the company would want to keep Apple on one of the spectrum and criminals on the other end from obtaining one. I assume they will only sell to law enforcement and they probably have very strict rules about the sale. Will anyone in law enforcement want to help Apple make it harder for them to get into suspected criminal's iPhones?
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I'm sure the Silicon Valley types joke with each other about how the FBI doesn't see the darkness of offering a backdoor to mobile operating systems.
They (the FBI) live where they get their every whim and everybody is subservient to them.
A growing government is not on the face of it good or bad, except to people who have strong ideological views. Whether government growth is good or bad depends on whether the growth makes society better off by meeting the needs of society in a way that is better than feasible alternatives. To me, that's an empirical question that should be studied, not a question that we answer based on our tribal allegiances.
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