Current Events > Senators threaten Facebook and Apple with encryption regulation

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-encryption-facebook/u-s-senators-threaten-facebook-apple-with-encryption-regulation-idUSKBN1YE2CK

I posted this on the politics board too.

It's so hard explaining to someone that they don't actually want what they are asking for.

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Thought from the title this would be about setting minimum standards for encryption of user data. Guess I shouldn't have been so optimistic

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Since it's the senate and not the house, I was thinking that this might be an effort to distract from the impeachment. *crosses fingers*

Good thing I use based Proton services.

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Lol no you won't.

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"we want access to your data to form a database to sell to Insurance companies and medical companies"

that's what these scumbags really mean
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Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

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Polycosm posted...

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

I had no idea Donald Trump posted on Gamefaqs.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/senate-judiciary-committee-interrogates-apple-facebook-about-crypto/

"My recommendation to you is that you all get on with it... By this time next year, if you haven't come up with a solution that we can all live with, we will impose our will on you."

Making a backdoor for the government is essentially making every device be out on easy mode for Hackers and the like(and ironically enough would probably make government devices more vulnerable too)

Is catching a handful of terrorists and child porn consumers worth basically destroying digital privacy/security and further enpowering the police state?

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pikachupwnage posted...

Is catching a handful of terrorists and child porn consumers worth basically destroying digital privacy/security and further enpowering the police state?

I'm just going to say that it's certainly not just about catching terrorists of people with child porn. The government would certainly love to have an easy way to spy on its citizens.

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Tmaster148 posted...

I'm just going to say that it's certainly not just about catching terrorists of people with child porn. The government would certainly love to have an easy way to spy on its citizens.

Well yeah. Thats why I have the empowering the police state as a negative in post.

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