Totally agree, "war" is way overused and it's meaning has been badly diluted. Similarly, I'm sick of the word "terrorist". It is too grandiose a word for what amounts to nothing more than criminals.
Where is the middle ground in math? Please show it to me. That "gray" area where compromise can be achieved if we just do the math differently. Maybe use long division instead of the new funky division? Please tell me.
I'm so sick of this stupid controversy. People, it says right on the box of your phone that your location can and will be tracked! You agreed to being tracked when you opened the box!
Heck, even with encryption it is scary using money online! Most companies have embraced at least the minimum of encryption between here and there (SSL, TLS, etc), but still haven't grasped the need to keep their customer's data protected at rest. How many "big" websites have had to admit they were hacked and had customer data stolen?
Foiling law enforcement is just a handy side-effect.
But in all seriousness, no one ever said law enforcement was supposed to be easy. In fact, much of the process involved is to make sure that it is *not* easy. When law enforcement becomes too easy, you get what we've basically got now: a police state.
Part of the problem, of course, is that the folks that wrote the original copyright laws did not (or could not) foresee a time when things didn't have to be "real" to exist. As much as I despise most things copyright, and I totally understand Mike's point here, the fact is that if the concept of digital files had been conceived then, they would likely have included it in the way the Copyright Office describes.
However, since the Copyright Office has no problems at all with unlimited retroactive clawbacks, I say screw them and their interpretations.
All of this has already happened. The NSA developed a backdoored encryption algorithm and then pushed ANSI, ISO, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to adopt it as a formal standard. The NSA also paid off several companies to utilize it as a basis in their encryption products. The fact that the everyday American doesn't know anything about this makes me a sad panda.
You make a really good point actually. The fear of being seen to do "nothing" does seem to be a real thing for politicians. Even though nothing is what they've been accomplishing lately with all of their partisan bickering.
Top cryptologists have reasonably cautioned that “new law enforcement requirements are likely to introduce unanticipated, hard to detect security flaws,” but this is not the end of the analysis. We recognize there may be risks to requiring such access, but we know there are risks to doing nothing.
Typical BS politician statement, "there may be risks to requiring such access"... No, there are *absolutely* risks, no "may" about it, which begins with a very strong possibility, and increases over time to near certainty, that the encryption backdoor will be discovered and used by criminals and other adversaries.
Why can't they get this through their heads? What dementia affects career politicians that they don't get that OUR ENEMIES will be able to read our most closely guarded secrets if they get their way?
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Stupid controversy
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But in all seriousness, no one ever said law enforcement was supposed to be easy. In fact, much of the process involved is to make sure that it is *not* easy. When law enforcement becomes too easy, you get what we've basically got now: a police state.
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Got it
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New concepts
However, since the Copyright Office has no problems at all with unlimited retroactive clawbacks, I say screw them and their interpretations.
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Accidents happen
"What's that? It wiped your hard drive? So sorry, move along."
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Re: the risks of doing nothing
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Re: Sooo
On the post: Senator John McCain Weighs In On 'Going Dark' Debate -- Insists That He Understands Cryptography Better Than Cryptographers
Typical BS
Why can't they get this through their heads? What dementia affects career politicians that they don't get that OUR ENEMIES will be able to read our most closely guarded secrets if they get their way?
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Plenty of stupidity to go around
nude picture of person (regardless of age) != pornography
Therefore, no law was broken to start with.
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