dominikhoffmann

I am a conservative and a enthusiastic Trump supporter. However, weakening encryption is such a bad idea. I am also a pro-lifer who has been an activist with over the past differing levels of involvement. I shudder to think of a time, when today’s Antifa comes to power and then exploits weakened encryption to “enforce the law” against someone like me who engages in legitimate activities, civil disobedience or similar.

Do not think that the Obama administration would not have wanted to have that kind of power, too. It was that administration that approved applications for 501(c)4 status of political organizations on a purely partisan basis (remember Lois Lerner?). Do you have any doubts that they would not have taken the next step, if weak encryption had enabled it and their political opponents had seen it fit to use it? What about a future administration that might see itself following in the ideological footsteps of the Obama administration?

Just like the Second Amendment, strong encryption protects the citizen or associations of citizens from a despotic government. Although we don’t have the right to privacy enshrined in the constitution, it seems to me that it is a natural right, or as the Declaration of Independence puts it, an inalienable right. None of our founding documents purport to provide a complete enumeration of such natural rights. As a matter of fact, the Tenth Amendment states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Likewise, I am certain that it would have been the understanding of the Founding Fathers that there are unenumerated rights. Otherwise there would have never been a constitution without the Bill of Rights, which was passed and ratified two years later.

I am wondering, what this really means for my privacy. Will the Nest thermostat no longer be a Trojan Horse I bring into my house that allows Google to know my comings and goings?

Anyone know of a good Bluetooth transmitter with a mic input? My application is to wirelessly record someone wearing a lavalier mic plugged into one of those transmitter, via Bluetooth. Does anybody know of a piece of equipment that can act as the go-between of mic and phone?

It should have been “self-styled consumer advocate Ralph Nader….”

This is protectionism at its best. So the people of India are to be forced to purchase inferior phones, because Apple needs a permit to import used phones?

To the extent that products are not made in India that could be, it is rules like these that prevent it from happening.