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anantksundaram said:

I like Mr. Obama, but this is such disappointing bullshit from him. He's the boss of the FBI and the DoJ. He should first tell them to chill. 

Obama wants his legacy to be the administration that bullied the private sector, compromised encryption, civil liberties and the Constitution. Bravo el presidente!

Best thing Obama could if he wants to turn this ship around is to fire FBI James Comey and AG Lynch. 

Dronebama, our fearless civil liberties compromiser, used to be a "Constitutional Law" professor, but now he is an encryption expert...and so are FBI chief Comey and AG Lynch....

Obama should have consulted with people like Mike Cheroff and Hayden before making himself a fool again. They are all opposed to backdoors to encryption.

Obummer

Obama likes to talk, but say nothing. Nothing worthwhile. His trademark is to speak from both sides of the mouth. He is an expert at misleading the people he is supposed to serve. He could teach the devil how to lie. He puts Pinocchio to shame.

It is stupid to bring up TSA intrusion, drunk driving road blocks, tax enforcement; traffic cameras, etc in a discussion about data security. This goes way beyond privacy. All our lives are in these phones. This is the problem. This is a discussion of absolutes. There is no such thing as balance in a discussion about encryption. Either you let criminals into our phones or you do your best without intentional backdoors to keep them out.

Unbreakable encryption is still not 100% because data endpoints are still vulnerable. We cannot possibly take this a step further and intentionally weaken data security by adding backdoors. Anyone proposing the addition of backdoors is misinformed. And the US Government is by far the worst organization at keeping data secure. Anything that the US government keeps secret is guaranteed to leak. Take Snowden. The US Govt had no idea that he was downloading top secret documents while he was working for the NSA. And the US Govt. still has no clue how many documents he took with him. Is this where we want to keep our data secure, including encryption keys or Apple's GovtOS? Fk that! Every other day, the Govt gets hacked.

I propose that ALL search orders must go to the rightful owner of the phone and only the owner. This way, there is no question on who can unlock the phone. This will keep this process straightforward. After all, when law enforcement serves a search warrant to a homeowner, the warrant does not go to the homebuilder.

In cases for which direct access of information in a phone is not possible, there is still hope. The answer is to request phone business records through the 215 program, examine geopositional data. Metadata is far more powerful than content.