FBI Director calls encryption " A major public safety issue". Right.

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I bet every single director of the FBI since J. Edgar Hoover has jerked himself to the sensationalist headlines they feed the press.

The next headline will be "Using PGP leads to teen pregnancy!"


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[87 Points] poncho_escobar:

"Reddit user poncho_escobar calls the FBI Director 'A giant cockdongle' for calling encryption a 'public safety issue"


[60 Points] RealCoinShill:

Dear trump,

Lately i have been noticing the fbi directory taking you for granted. Its like hes acting like the president, of which you rightly are. Im always upset when i see members of the fbi take credit for making america great again away from you with their selfish vision to eventually take credits and the legacy away from you.

Please sack the fbi director before he starts making you feel less worthy of a great president you really are. Do it before the fake news media start giving the fbi director unworthy praise that you rightly deserve.


[33 Points] OptionalAccountant:

Good luck banning an algorithm


[17 Points] dubiousluxury:

This is a partial reprint from an article written by one of the men who coded PGP in its infancy. He was also the first person to recive mined bitcoin (from Satoshi), and worked closely with him to get BTC up an running.

Can't post a link now, I will try to do so later today. Thank you Mr. Zimmerman.

"Philip Zimmermann. Why I Wrote PGP"

Part of the Original 1991 PGP User's Guide (updated in 1999)

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -Mahatma Gandhi

"It's personal. It's private. And it's no one's business but yours. You may be planning a political campaign, discussing your taxes, or having a secret romance. Or you may be communicating with a political dissident in a repressive country. Whatever it is, you don't want your private electronic mail (email) or confidential documents read by anyone else. There's nothing wrong with asserting your privacy. Privacy is as apple-pie as the Constitution."

"The right to privacy is spread implicitly throughout the Bill of Rights. But when the United States Constitution was framed, the Founding Fathers saw no need to explicitly spell out the right to a private conversation. That would have been silly. Two hundred years ago, all conversations were private. If someone else was within earshot, you could just go out behind the barn and have your conversation there. No one could listen in without your knowledge. The right to a private conversation was a natural right, not just in a philosophical sense, but in a law-of-physics sense, given the technology of the time."

"But with the coming of the information age, starting with the invention of the telephone, all that has changed. Now most of our conversations are conducted electronically. This allows our most intimate conversations to be exposed without our knowledge. Cellular phone calls may be monitored by anyone with a radio. Electronic mail, sent across the Internet, is no more secure than cellular phone calls. Email is rapidly replacing postal mail, becoming the norm"

Tldr/ everyone has a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRIVAVY.


[6 Points] darlantan:

I have no doubt that all of those words were used in at least one off-the-record conversation the director held, probably in a statement something like this:

"Encryption grants the public a degree of safety from our overreach. This is a major issue for our ability to keep abusing our power at every opportunity."


[4 Points] None:

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[3 Points] shottifery:

reminds me of David Cameron, old British PM, he tried to ban encryption but then people said "mate how exactly are you doing your online banking?" and he propmptly shut the fuck up.


[3 Points] smokeythebandit12:

People have the right to lock their shit down. Government always wants to be in your business.Fuck his bitch ass.


[2 Points] SirFoxx:

It is. Encryption protects people from being grabbed and locked away for exercising FREEDOM.


[1 Points] DirtNapMarkets:

The FBI director himself...that's the major public safety issue here.


[1 Points] inthea215:

I don't know much about encryption other than pgp but isn't there plenty of encryption being done by businesses and credit card companies everyday. At least I would hope so. I mean other than buying drugs isn't encryption how to prevent crimes like fraud.


[0 Points] ZenDendou:

Instead of trying to ban encryption, FBI Director should make an effort to change the law, so he can hire some fucking proper hacker instead of outsourcing it to China or India...Those country are smarter than USA. Althrough, I'm not sure what they law are regarding that, but USA need to catch up. USA invented frigging computer and internet, and they still go after Hacker instead of hiring them.


[-6 Points] gekogekogeko:

How can encryption be a public safety issue while the ready access of firearms is considered a constitutional right?