Hillary Clinton Doubles Down Her Attack On Silicon Valley: Wants A 'Solution' For Encryption & Clampdown On Free Speech
from the that-seems-pretty-dumb dept
A few weeks ago, we pointed out that Hillary Clinton had, unfortunately, joined in with other clueless politicians to call for “Silicon Valley” to “develop solutions” to the “concerns of law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals” on “encryption.” Anyone who’s followed the “debate” over encryption over the past year knows that asking Silicon Valley to “develop solutions” is James Comey’s codewords for “create a backdoor for encryption” — no matter how many times experts in encryption have explained to him that such a solution makes everyone less safe. After we and a few others wrote about Clinton’s unfortunate and dangerous decision to throw her lot in with those who wish to backdoor encryption, one of her main tech advisers, Alec Ross, went a little ballistic, insisting she did not say what she clearly did say.
And, this weekend Clinton apparently decided to double down and then go even further — even before President Obama suggested that he’d also support undermining encryption. First, on ABC’s This Week, she repeated the argument that we just need “the best minds” to “come together” and “deal” with this issue.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about Apple? No more encryption?
CLINTON: This is something I’ve said for a long time, George. I have to believe that the best minds in the private sector, in the public sector could come together to help us deal with this evolving threat. And you know, I know what the argument is from our friends in the industry. I respect that. Nobody wants to be feeling like their privacy is invaded.
But I also know what the argument is on the other side from law enforcement and security professionals. So, please, let’s get together and try to figure out the best way forward.
But, again, that’s like asking “the best minds” to come up with bullets that only kill bad people. Or books that only nice people are allowed to read. You’re asking for an impossibility, and in doing so, you’re making everyone less safe by undermining encryption — which is the key to realistic computer security.
Even worse, when Clinton claims that she knows “what the argument is from our friends in the industry” she gets their argument wrong. It’s not just about invading privacy. It’s about the fact that she’s asking for the impossible. It’s not just about protecting the privacy of people from intruding government. It’s about not weakening overall systems that will allow those with bad intent to do lots of damage. It’s a ridiculous statement and Clinton appears to be getting just as bad technology advice as basically every other presidential candidate.
And, that wasn’t her only ridiculous anti-tech statement on the weekend. She also said that Facebook, YouTube and Twitter should censor bad content online to somehow stop ISIS.
STEPHANOPOULOS: If you were in the Oval Office tonight, would you be announcing a new strategy?
CLINTON: Well, I think what — that’s what we’ll hear from the president, an intensification of the existing strategy and I think there’s some additional steps we have to take.
If you look at the story about this woman and maybe the man, too, who got radicalized, self-radicalized, we’re going to need help from Facebook and from YouTube and from Twitter. They cannot permit the recruitment and the actual direction of attacks or the celebration of violence by this sophisticated Internet user.
They’re going to have to help us take down these announcements and these appeals they get up.
I know that this view is one that many people agree with, but it’s equally dangerous. First, it assumes that ISIS propaganda is apparently so powerful that no counter speech could possibly work against it, and thus it must be censored. But that’s ridiculous on multiple levels. It overvalues the speech of ISIS and its supporters and the impact that it has (most studies have shown radicalization happens because of people individuals know in real life, not randos on the internet).
Really, though, exactly how are Facebook and Twitter and YouTube supposed to do this? How are they supposed to review every bit of content that everyone creates, and determine which bits are “good” and allowed and which are “bad” and not allowed? Clinton is asking for a fairy tale — a world where (1) it’s obvious what’s good content and what’s not and (2) one in which every bit of speech and communication is monitored and scored on such a non-existent scale. Both of these things are impossible. I don’t know about you, but I prefer political candidates who focus on the possible, rather than fairy tales (I recognize this leaves me with basically almost no politicians to support, but occupational hazard, I guess…).
In a separate speech, given at the Brookings Institution, Clinton took this idea even further, calling on Silicon Valley to “disrupt ISIS,” which is such a painful abuse of the term “disrupt” as to again raise questions about who is advising her on tech policy issues:
?We need to put the great disrupters at work at disrupting ISIS.”
Disruption in the tech world is about making things cheaper and better, and reinventing markets. It’s not about magically stopping bad people from using technology. This is still fairy tale thinking.
But, more importantly, it encourages (or potentially threatens to mandate) that these content and communications platforms have to start proactively monitoring all speech online, and determining, on the fly, what speech is “good” and which speech is “bad.” That’s dangerous and will undoubtedly lead to much greater censorship — including content that actually is useful in highlighting atrocities and dangerous activities online. We’ve seen this before. After US politicians pressured YouTube into removing “terrorist” videos, it resulted in videos being deleted from a Syrian watchdog group that was documenting atrocities.
Besides, these two separate issues seem totally contradictory. On the one hand, Clinton and other anti-encryption folks whine about not being able to see what terrorists are saying “because encryption.” But then, at the same time, they’re saying that when those same people talk about things publicly online — in a way that’s trackable — we should shut them down.
It’s almost like they have no strategy at all… except to try to throw the blame on technology companies.
Filed Under: disruption, encryption, free speech, going dark, hillary clinton, isis, james comey
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Comments on “Hillary Clinton Doubles Down Her Attack On Silicon Valley: Wants A 'Solution' For Encryption & Clampdown On Free Speech”
A lie by any other name...
What needs to be done, each and every time someone argues for crippling encryption, if for it to be pointed out, crystal clear and with no room for confusion, what they are really asking for:
Weaker security and less safety for everyone.
That is what they are arguing for, no matter how much they try and lie and pretend otherwise, and they deserve to be called out on it.
Re: A lie by any other name...
What really bothers me is that one of the logical outcomes of this is that tech companies will demand to be released from liability for any future breaches. And the government will acquiesce, because that is how they will convince them.
So, not only will consumers be left holding the bag, they’ll be completely on their own.
Nothing could possibly be a bigger threat to future online commerce than that.
Re: Re: A lie by any other name...
It’s not like if our tech companies stop making encryption it suddenly disappears off the face of the planet either. There will still be companies striving to make good products out there.. They just won’t be from here.
Re: Re: A lie by any other name...
So true. Remember “retroactive immunity” for telcos from Bush after they helped spy on their customers.
The gov’t can always coerce/bribe companies with this kind of immunity. “Hey, we won’t pay you money, but we will remove risk from your calculations.”
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“Hey, we won’t pay you money, but we…”
as far as I remember the NSA paid 10 millions to put its backdoor in the RSA encryption
so YES they can print and pay you millions for fscking your “clients”
Re: Re: Re:2 A lie by any other name...
True. They will use “every tool in the toolbox”.
But I stand by my point. Many people not trained in risk management would not immediately realize that “removing risk” is a real economic incentive, as good a payoff to a business as a literal bag of money.
The gov’t can offer this “risk reduction” bribe without needing to allocate any budget, carve any checks, or send any suitcases of cash. It’s “off balance sheet”, and almost invisible to the voting public. The costs are socialized, but not a tax, so Grover Norquist won’t bitch about it. It slips under the radar.
As such, it can be easily corrupted, as good as any slush fund and as honest as any Iran-Contra payoffs.
Disturbing
So freedom of speech (presumably privacy and security, too) is a “complaint,” not a right, and the Constitution is just an obstacle to be circumvented to her.
Re: Disturbing
Well, at least she was honest enough to admit that she sees freedom of speech as an obstacle to be overcome, rather than a right to be defended, that’s got to count for something, right? /s
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Listen, I dislike her a little, and a LOT on this subject. But to be fair, people complaining about “Freedom of speech” are frequently NOT making a valid 1st Amendment complaint.
Also said as, just by invoking the 1st doesn’t actually mean your complaint is valid.
Take many of the idiot commenters on Techdirt, whose comments are voted away, who complain about censorship and 1st Amendment rights. They are wrong on so many levels: Mike didn’t censor them, the community did, this is not a gov’t site so it is not a violation of free speech, and their speech is not removed, but voted into a low visibility state.
Re: Re: Re: Disturbing
Oh, of course not.
A complaint that Kim Jong-un is suppressing his people’s speech in the DPRK is certainly not a valid 1st Aendment complaint! There just is NOT any 1st Amendment in North Korea.
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mob justice
Re: Re: Re:2 Disturbing
The right to speech and to be heard are very different things. Don’t confuse the two.
Re: Disturbing
The UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IS Just a GODDAMNED PIECE OF PAPER (According to Goerge W Bush) and others from his camp.
Trump is just another Ross Perot spoiler.
ISIS should not be allowed to use smart phones, only stupid phones. Perhaps they can borrow one from Ms Clinton.
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That would be a stupid phony, not a phone. On the plus side, borrowing Ms Clinton and/or other leading crop of our politicians to ISIS might just be what’s needed to collapse their finances, principles, and morals.
Talk about hypocrite
She is the queen of hypocrites. She ran her own email server to maintain privacy and expects the sheeple to give up their privacy. It is truly a sad statement on the Democratic party that she is the best candidate they have for our next president.
Re: Talk about hypocrite
And Silicon Valley keeps giving money to Democrats, propping up their enemies like Feinstein and Clinton.
Of course, looking at the Republicans on the FCC board doesn’t give you much hope there either.
I’ve got it! I’ve got the solution: Politicians are all morons.
Re: Talk about hypocrite
The problem is that the main the main alternative to a bad choice (Clinton) is a vile one (pick any Republican candidate).
Re: Re: Talk about hypocrite
Wow, if you think Hillary is better in any way than any of the Repubs, then it is no wonder she will be the next Dem candidate. She is even more dishonest than our current pres.
Re: Re: Re: Talk about hypocrite
any techdirt reader should be aware they are all whores with just different price
Re: Talk about hypocrite
Actually,Sanders was the best Democratic candidate, but Clinton and the DNC stole the primaries. This is well-documented on YouTube and Facebook. Check out the information from Redacted Tonight, The Young Turks, Sane Progressive and others.
Yet another clueless ploitician who can’t distinguish technology from magic.
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I’ve noted this before with other politicians, and I believe it applies here just as much. She’s not clueless, she’s dishonest. If she really doesn’t know, then she shouldn’t be saying anything on the subject, and given how much attention has been given to the subject for months now, she’s had plenty of time to educate herself on the matter, which means there’s pretty much two possibilies here:
1. She’s intentionally kept herself ignorant on the issue, and has not bothered to consult with anyone who knows enough on the matter to give her an informed statement on it.
or
2. She’d dishonest, knows she’s asking for the impossible, and doesn’t care.
Incompetent or lying, take your pick, because when it comes to politicians and police speaking about encryption and magic keys, at this point those are the only two options to describe them.
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3. Behaviors of crowds. She is doing what nearly everyone else in her culture and environment (professional politics) does.
Of course they lie, or at least bullshit – I’m pretty sure they don’t know half the time whether they are promoting untruths or not, like lots of people. The pols just have a stage where we can all see their act, and their actions have a lot more consequences than most peoples’, given their power.
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exactly
Obama is a great example of how they can TOTALLY BULLSHIT the whole campaign
just to do exactly the opposite AFTER election
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A old hag that’s been in Washington way, way to long!!! Completely out of touch. Clueless on tech.
Democrats are all for free speech as long as you agree with them!
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“Democrats are…”
you REALLY think there are two opposing parties?
don’t you?
Re: tech magic
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clarke
Re: Re: tech magic
Modern tech may be magic to primitives living in a jungle somewhere, but should be fully recognizable as tech to anyone with a high school education. Hell, I could tell tech from magic by third grade!
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And now they want you to make magic with tech.
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Whoosh!!!
I have the solution, lets put RIAA on the speech!
If we declare all ISIS, terrorists speech to be copyrighted by RIAA they will have it taken down by the days end. Problem solved.
Clinton is a stupid bitch. God help us if she becomes president.
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The question remains which would you prefer, Clinton or Trump. I expect Clinton to slowly chip away at the constitution. Trump would make things interesting. I am not sure if that will be a comedy of errors or armageddon but interesting none the less.
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I’m still hoping Sanders will beat out Clinton in the primaries. Or that the law will finally be upheld and Clinton goes to jail for using private email for gov work. Not holding out much hope on the latter. After all, laws are for little people, not presidential candidates.
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Sanders will tax you to death
good luck buying your next gaming rig with food stamps
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Sanders will tax you to death
good luck buying your next gaming rig with food stamps
Fuck the poor. Poor people are poor and rich people are rich because they deserve it.
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read sheep:
The leveling of society through the redistributive process means both A FLOOR AND A CEILING that specifies both the minimum that a person is to be guaranteed and the maximum that will be allowed through the taxing away of income
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-07/bernie-sanders-tyranny-working-living
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the redistributionists (Sanders + elite friends) need the poor as an excuse to TAX the middle and lower class to death
so that they keep most of it to themselves and limit social mobility
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Redistribution is happening already but it’s headed upwards. We’re already being squeezed. Maintaining and entrenching the status quo is not going to make things any better.
The democratic socialism practiced by Sanders, etc., doesn’t redistribute wealth, it just makes the wealthy pay their fair share into a system they’ve been milking for their own benefit. As I’ve said any number of times, if half of the assertions you hysterical right-wingers make were actually true, Vermont would have a population sharply divided between the very rich and the very poor. That’s not actually true, is it?
Now take a trip to Kansas and tell me why you think they’ve got their fiscal policy right.
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You Bernie Sanders supporters are dumber than ANY right winger. If you think “democratic socialism” is any different then “regular socialism” you are also additionally retarded. If you think socialism has worked, provided social stability or mobility, protected middle and lower class citizens, or generally increased the quality of life ANYWHERE that it has been tried, you’re so stupid that… Well, that you must be a Bernie Sanders supporter. How is it that you people are so blind, stupid, ignorant, and out of touch to think that “Big Government” is going to reign in “Big Pharma” and “Big Oil” and “the Wall Street criminals” when these out of control corporations already operate within the parameters set by your Holy Federal Government? How do you dipshits explain that suddenly the Feds are going to work for you when there is an, I don’t know, 239 year history of that NEVER happening? There is however a ton of evidence (that same 239 years) that massive companies are able to basically dictate policy for their benefit, to the detriment of everyone else. Government is inefficient, bloated, corrupt, out of touch, morally bankrupt, and borderline evil. Congrats! You and your mindless ilk are responsible (at least partially) for getting us here and, if you dumb asses get your way, will be responsible for making it worse. Rather than listening to the garbage populist spew, try stopping and thinking.
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You are completely ignorant of this topic. Socialism is how all aspects of the world work. Governance is civil society. Your delusional fascistic rhetoric is minimally important. You belong to such a small group of weak children nobody is even remotely concerned about you.
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“Redistribution is happening already but it’s headed upwards.”
And has been going on for quite some time now. Funny how some people think it’s OK for it to go in that direction but not the other.
I knew someone who was a rabidly against welfare or social assistance programs. When I say rabid, I mean he would get so worked up ranting against them that he would actually start foaming at the corners of his mouth.
Funny thing is, he spent his days watching Fox News and collecting welfare checks (disability, social security, medicare, food stamps, medicaid, etc.). When confronted with his hypocrisy he would retort that he deserved it because he was different than those “other” people on welfare because back when he worked he paid taxes! Like he was America’s only taxpayer or something.
Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Dec 7th, 2015 @ 8:30am
I don’t believe in god but thankfully I have another citizenship to fall back on.
I think the tech sector should publish a statement unanimously every single time one of these ploitician speaks about encryption.
It should be simple, concise and to the point without any possibility of reinterpretation.
Drill it into people’s heads.
“What you are asking for is mathematically impossible.”
Do it often enough and it will become second nature and further arguments will be shot down immediately as they’re suggested.
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What they’re asking for is strychnine flavored ice cream, and they’re refusing to acknowledge that’s poisonous ice cream.
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“What you are asking for is mathematically impossible.”
Do you really think that will work in a country where one state very nearly < href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill>legislated the value of pi to be 3.2??
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sorry – link should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
I was able to go through all the files on my servers and get rid of the bad stuff, so YouTube, etc. should be able to do it on their servers.
The full quote:
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and kallocain
and soma
Those in the Know, know, and those NOT in the Know, don't know, doncha know?
I think Clinton knows exactly what she is saying here. She wants a cheaper and better ISIS in order to have a platform, any platform, that will increase power for the Government (I was going to say the Executive, but that power is not mutually exclusive, it is all encompassing. Only, the little people are not allowed into the club).
It also appears that all those running for office not only become members of the club, but are required to be members, know the handshake and secret mumble. We know this because there is no apparent candidate who is calling bullshit on the rest of them.
Re: Those in the Know, know, and those NOT in the Know, don't know, doncha know?
you Sir are brilliant!
if we replace “the internet” with twitter and facebook, we could just CGI and photoshop Isis and alikes
and that would be cheaper than sending trucks and weapons and the film crew to this horrible places…
Re: Those in the Know, know, and those NOT in the Know, don't know, doncha know?
Compared to the budget for the U.S. army, they are doing a heck of an efficient job at keeping the world at edge. Granted, they don’t need to run a propaganda or a recruitment department of their own because the U.S. government is doing those jobs for them.
Re: Re: Those in the Know, know, and those NOT in the Know, don't know, doncha know?
There is a large segment of the citizenry in the Daesh occupied territories that believe, with all their hearts, that the US is in bed with Daesh. This is probably not far from the truth. We are responsible for a lot of their equipment and such. Just sayin.’
Re: Re: Re: Those in the Know, know, and those NOT in the Know, don't know, doncha know?
Just like on the Entourage douchbags seem to attract one another … Oh you said Daesh.
Re: Re: Re: Those in the Know, know, and those NOT in the Know, don't know, doncha know?
There is a large segment of the citizenry in the Daesh occupied territories THAT KNOW the US is in bed with Daesh.
and there are US techdirt readers trying to fool themselves into happiness by just IGNORING THE FACTS
Idiocracy
Nobody, not even governments are going to use encryption with backdoors. I mean, they could create it but it’s simply not ever going to be used by anyone.
Re: Idiocracy
No, it’ll be FORCED on the average citizen. The honest ones, and the ones too uneducated enough to know how to get around the state mandated (broken) encryption. Why do you think education has fallen so low? The government wants everyone uneducated (despite what they claim) so they’ll be easier to lead around by the nose.
Re: Re: Idiocracy
Education hasn’t fallen to a new low. Critical thinking skills has fallen to a new low. Government wants smart people, just smart people that don’t think for themselves.
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Well, I include critical thinking as part of any DECENT education, so what you say is true, but included in my statement. People learn how to be a good cog in the wheel to a much higher degree, but that’s not a good education.
Re: Re: Re:2 Idiocracy
you can always research what the government definition of EDUCATION™ is, that one is not exactly classified
or the prussian origins
there is nothing DECENT in government EDUCATION™ and of course there is no critical thinking either,
because that would be a suicidal government
“I have to believe that the best minds in the private sector, in the public sector could come together to help us deal with this winged unicorns. And you know, I know what the argument is from our friends in the industry. I respect that.
But I also know what the argument is on the other side from law enforcement and security professionals. So, please, let’s get together and try to figure out the best way forward.”
Red or blue, their interests align against you
Good thing we have free and fair elections in this country.
This was the straw that broke the camel’s back in terms of my willingness to hold my nose and support Hillary.
I just sent $100 to Bernie.
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oh Bernie is going to tax you to death,
and then he will send you $100 (in food stamps)
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I hate to say this,.. I’d rather have Hillary to Bernie, and that’s just really, really , really,..hard to say. Look what you made me have to say. How about no thanks to either of those crazy’s.
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have a serious read of Bernie’s proposals, a serious look and no not on cnn or fox or any of the msm , on his actual real website.
you would be surprised at how forward thinking he is and the solutions he has for some of the biggest problems, and as with Trump he also is planning on single payer healthcare or something similar.
Sadly the President does not get everything he wants, just look at Obama with his single payer plan that had to be cut down to a mess because republicans wanted him to be a one term president and yes that is the only reason we do not have single payer right now , republicans wanted to ensure Obamacare failed, and in some ways it has sadly.
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have a serious read of Ayn Rand – atlas shrugged
and you will get an idea of Bernie`s redistributionist idea
and how you will be flowery taxed
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Rand believes that altruism is evil.
http://capitalismmagazine.com/2014/12/altruism-means-self-sacrifice-not-benevolence/
As a Christian I can’t accept that. I won’t accept that.
Now take a look at Kansas and let me know where Brownback succeeded. Oh, wait. He didn’t.
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Yes, she did, and so do I. She even wrote a book titled “The Virtue of Selfishness”. Have you read the article you linked to? It explains why. Rand despised “the moochers” who used gov’t power to enrich themselves. She didn’t consider them capitalists. A lot of so-called capitalists (including Trump and the Tesla electric car guy) don’t deserve to call themselves capitalists. They’re about as capitalistic as the PRC or Soviet Union were Marxist communists, meaning in name only.
Christianity, like most other spirituality, is very altruistic. It’s made religion (the business of capitalizing on spirituality) very profitable.
I, on the other hand, am a “teach a man to fish” kind of guy, so he’ll be able to feed himself. Altruism teaches you to “give a man a fish” instead, so they’ll be locked into dependence on others than themselves. I can’t accept that. I think religion is evil, and spirituality is plain silly.
Rand saw nothing moral nor immoral about charity. You want to be charitable, everybody should have a hobby, have fun. When instead we expect people to be charitable, up to and including forcing them to by gov’t decree (via redistribution via taxation & etc.), sure the hell is immoral. That’s no better than Steppenwolf’s “The Pusher” because dependence is dependence no matter what form it takes.
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Rand was selfish and immoral.
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Nobody’s perfect, but there’s nothing immoral about being selfish, especially when it’s your stuff you’re being selfish about. If you disagree, then how can you stand to own anything? Give it all away and beg for your supper like Hari Krishnas. Have fun. I won’t be joining you.
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Have fun in hell. I won’t be joining you.
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You actually still believe in hell? How about the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, zombies, dragons, elves, ogres, and vampires? You really are a fool. Those are fairy tales invented to scare kids into eating their vegetables. They’re not things which should concern adults. Grow up.
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You actually still believe in hell?
You obviously don’t. That explains a lot.
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Obamacare failed because he did nothing to change the cost of healthcare. Now you have to have it, or pay additional penalties on top of the previous ones that had you losing your home and any possessions when the hospital charges you 20x what the health insured were asked to pay. Since you have to have it, the costs have gone up just like the health insurance companies knew would happen. Obamacare was a feel good measure that could never work in the real world, but too many people were invested in it to admit it.
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so, you are ok with overpriced “healthcare providers” forcing you to sign contracts with them via Obama ?
you DO LIKE your freedoms
Re: Re: Re:Take responsibility for your actions
“Look what you made me have to say.”
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triggered
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That’s like the pot calling the kettle black…
The 1% created this problem, let them solve it. Let the Saudis do the decapitating this time. The Russians seem more than eager to take care of the problem. I just hope the 1% don’t finance another Adolph Hitler, most of us know how that one turned out. The 1% playing both sides of the equation while our sons and daughters lay down their lives. Avarice and greed. You will have to execute me before I fight in another one of your “wars”. You can’t even mind your own business wealthy America, what makes you think you can mind the store? I can only hope Bernie wipes up the floor with all of them. And that comes from an old dyed in the wool Republican…
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oh no no no sir,
it is not the 1%!
if you read latest Forbes 400 report it is the TOP 20.
YES twenty individuals.
http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Billionaire-Bonanza-The-Forbes-400-and-the-Rest-of-Us-Dec1.pdf
Now if you think they do not own Bernie already…
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They don’t need to. They just need to promote Atlas Shrugged and wail on Bernie as a “redistributionist” out to steal your money and your guns, punishing success to provide more welfare and abortions, etc. to the undeserving foreigners…
It’s working, isn’t it?
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Your last sentence doesn’t prove how great Bernie Sanders is. It proves that you are vastly more unintelligent than the dipshits that drank his KoolAid off the bat. I feel bad for you and you should feel bad.
Try to understand, Hillary has never had any personal use for encryption in her own life, and so doesn’t realize how important it is. She’s never, for instance, set up a private email server, or held a security clearance.
To expect her to have a clear understanding of cyber security is absurd. /s
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Hillary has never had any personal use for encryption in her own life,
Not that she is AWARE OF – that is…
what I fear is that she understands encryption as much as she understands Saul Alinsky !
Legal Fantasy
Demanding the magical solutions that only affect people with ill intent while ignore everyone else has a name. It is called being insane. The real world has positives and negatives for every legal action and anyone claiming otherwise is either insane or a liar. Of course we might be looking at someone who is both at the same time, but at the very least, they are trying to get you to give up rights and freedoms in return for unsupported “wishes”.
2 + 2 is not equal to 5, breaking encryption will not make us safer.
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she KNOWS
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2+2=5 for large values of 2. Rounding rules make this work. 2.3 + 2.3 = 4.6 round to one sif fig and you get 2+2=5.
Fix the Liberal Media first
I find it interesting the Hillary blames Facebook, Twitter and Youtube for inciting radicalization and pretty much glorifying radical islam. The problem is not with those media’s which are individually sought out. The problem is with the over the top press and media coverage by the television news outlets. They know they are going to get lots of coverage. It’s not terrorism unless you able to instill terror in lots of people and not just those in the immediate area. As long as we put it front and center and give every pundit talking point time and extensive video coverage this problem will not cease. I don’t think it would be as rampant (mass shootings not associated with terroism as well) if they didn’t get the news coverage. What they’re doing just wouldn’t be as effective without the big media blasting all over the TV night after night after night.
Re: Fix the Liberal Media first
so,
you read her thesis!
great
Re: Fix the Liberal Media first
The media is not liberal.
That said, you are otherwise right. The problem we have with the media is that terrorism is completely aligned with the business goals of news channels. Fear and terror make people turn on the news more, and stay tuned longer. Terrorism is great for Nielsen ratings.
This applies to domestic shooters, or political, or theocratic terrorists. It bleeds, it leads. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Re: Re: Fix the Liberal Media first
Please can we make this comment Last Word?
Re: Re: Fix the Liberal Media first
“The media is not liberal” tends to be the first line out of super leftie’s mouths. Maybe not small news outlets. But I have some oceanfront property in Montana for you if you don’t think the major news outlets in America don’t have an inherent and obvious liberal bias. Look at any article or segment covering guns, states rights, freedom of speech, or taxation from MSNBC, CNN, NYT, AP, Reuter’s, Rolling Stone, USA Today, or The (godawful and borderline criminal) Washington Post, and then try to say that stupid shit that just left your malfunctioning brain again with a straight face.
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The media is capitalistic and reactionary. It has little space for progressive liberalism. You are not educated about what you write.
The emperor's new clothes (again)
Let’s assume for the sake of discussion that a truly secure back-doored encryption could be developed that would miraculously allow only the good people to spy on only the bad people and only with a warrant.
What bad people would use such an encryption when pretty good encryption is already available which does not have a back door. I believe Snowden pointed out that Al Queda has their own in-house developed encryption technology which they are updating and upgrading on an ongoing basis. Not sure what ISIS is doing. But neither they, nor ordinary criminals, would use the government approved encryption.
Even if it wasn’t mathematically impossible,. it is sociologically impossible.
Re: The emperor's new clothes (again)
“Snowden pointed out that Al Queda has their own in-house developed encryption … Not sure what ISIS is doing”
you know this is BULLSHIT until you post the link!
SNOWDEN has never said that, or even anything remotely close to that.
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It’s not clear what you objected to, the misattribution, which I regret, or the content. The content is pretty solid.
Sorry, it’s a day where I’m running on 2 hours of sleep, so I get sloppy. In any case, some days the distinction between what Snowden revealed and what Glen Greenwald said is a bit thin. Here are links to a Greenwald articles and interview and a quote from the interview –
A recent link would be: https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/13/glenn_greenwald_criticizes_npr_for_relying
“GLENN GREENWALD: Yeah. Well, first of all, all this report said is that the Snowden reporting began in June of 2013, and then in September and December, al-Qaeda had different encryption programs. But the most basic logical premise teaches us that just because event A preceded event B doesn’t mean that event A caused event B. That isn’t evidence of causation. The reality is, is that you can go back to 2001 and find all kind of news stories every year describing the efforts of al-Qaeda to develop sophisticated and advanced forms of encryption. They’ve known forever that the U.S. government wants to electronically surveil their communications. They’ve been developing encryption for many, many years before the Snowden stories ever began. And in August of 2013, the U.S. government, the Obama administration went to the media, to McClatchy and to The Daily Beast, and they bragged about how they had intercepted a conference call between al-Qaeda leaders, in which al-Qaeda leaders were planning to attack U.S. embassies. And according to The New York Times, that leak, that came from the government…”
Bottom line, Al Queda wrote their own encryption software, updated it often, and it is reasonable to assume neither they, nor any other bad guy with half a brain, would use a US government approved encryption package.
If you have evidence to the contrary, post it.
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you posted links of Glenn Greenwald referencing either to CORPORATE MEDIA saying AlQaeda does encryption or us gov public release saying the same
SO SNOWDEN “pointed out that Al Queda has their own in-house developed encryption”
Re: The emperor's new clothes (again)
The good people don’t need a fscking warrant. A warrant requirement is a measure of mistrust, and there is no reason to mistrust the good people.
When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they were still under the impression of bad actors making it into the English government. They could not foresee our modern times where the U.S. government has had recourse to so many trustworthy good people that the idea of oversight is just ridiculous.
What we need is a good ole’ zombie apocalypse!
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we already have it
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it is done via Alinsky methods b
y professionally trained community organizers
like Obama and Hillary
“Hillary Clinton had, unfortunately, joined in with other clueless politicians to call for “Silicon Valley” to “develop solutions” to the “concerns of law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals” on “encryption.””…..
As “if” she were a “viable candidate” otherwise. She’s too busy defaulting to “lying piece of shit” to be a human being (let alone a viable candidate).
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the USG definition of VIABLE CANDIDATE™ is classified
laugh Loud
I just love the powermongers and there utter frustration at the fact that they have lost all of that power to monitor our communications Now instant communications worldwide and anonymously are as easy as downloading a small file.
the definition of “viable candidate™” is classified
We need to stop saying she’s asking for the mathematically impossible – that’s too many syllables. “Average” voters would have switched off already.
The “asking for bullets that only hurt bad guys” or “knives that only spread jam” might work though.
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Nope, because people understand how bullets and knives work. Computers are magic, they can do anything and it’s all easy because it’s done by the experts and not us.
Clinton is must be a liar, idiot or lying idiot. Does it really matter which one?
and fuck eric schmidt for supporting her.
Instead of saying security professionals, she should have said “..from law enforcement and the folks we pay to ‘defend the homeland’, who look increasingly inept with each new day and and will be run out of town because they promised the impossible: to keep us all totally safe, warm, and fuzzy. But hey, look at how well they’ve done! We have no worries about weapons on planes… er.. bombings of public high profile events…er.. hang on, I’ll think of something.”
Security professionals worth their salaries know that this idea of secure-while-also-insecure encryption doesn’t work, wouldn’t fix the problem (encryption is obviously the only reason terrorists can accomplish anything) and don’t want any part of it.
You want intelligence? GO FSCKING EARN IT.
Logic Fail
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about The Transitive Law? No more Logic?
CLINTON: This is something I’ve said for a long time, George. I have to believe that the best minds in the private sector, in the public sector could come together to help us deal with this evolving threat. And you know, I know A = B and B = C. I respect that. Nobody wants B to not = C.
But I also know that if the best minds just work with us on this problem, we could make it so that A does not = C. So, please, let’s get together and try to figure out the best way forward. I know Silicon Valley can make A <> C.
Re: Logic Fail
The smart people in Silicon Valley could solve all of the world’s problems in a blink if they just wanted to. The problem is just in applying sufficient “motivation” to make them want to.
Re: Re: Logic Fail
The smart people in Silicon Valley do solve:
a) rich Silicon Valley people problems
b) government problems
Re: Re: Re: Logic Fail
The smart people in Silicon Valley do solve:
a) rich Silicon Valley people problems
b) government problems
Umm, they haven’t solved the governments magic unicorn golden key problem yet, have they?
Re: Re: Logic Fail
Sorry, we’re too busy figuring out:
– how to better “Quantify ourselves”, and
– how to hail a cab more efficiently.
Figure the rest out yourselves.
Signed,
The Valley.
Feminism has succeeded…instead of a crazy Grandpa’s crazy rantings at family gatherings, we now have a confused Grandma doing it on national TV.
It seems like we’re heading towards a two tier encryption system with “good guys” like banks and health care and online retailers getting to use real encryption and the rest have to settle for compromised, back-doored encryption.
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Under the new system, the good guys will the ones that feed their world wide customer data straight to the US government, making the use of strong encryption moot.
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oh no no no
.gov wants to know how and where you spend your money, what allergies it can use to accidentally kill you and what books you are buying online
so banks, health and online retailers cannot use encryption either
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no, because there’s nothing stopping those particular “good guys” from using their super secret “good guy encryption” to set up a service that other people can use to communicate. The only “good guys” allowed to use “good guy encryption” will be the military, the NSA, the FBI, and the DHS.
Encryption
If encryption is illegal, only criminals will have encryption!
Re: Encryption
Yes, criminals like banks, security agencies…
Actually, it’s true. It’s criminals the ones who make the most use of encryption.
George Steponallofus is in the tank for Hillary
With all the hard ball questions on everyone’s mind, he only lobbed her his soft balls.
There isn't even an argument here...
Why the heck is it that it seems that these people are winning?
I am assuming here, that there should be some tech smart people that have worked on this problem for quite a while… What have they come up with?
I find one thing in common in these arguments to “find a solution to encryption”: There is nothing there! Nobody even has a slight hint of a plan or a way to do this.
In programming there are 5 steps, each with several mini-steps.
Step 1 is: Clarify Programming Needs.
Mini-step 1 is: Carify Objective and Users.
They fail the very first part of the first step! Nobody carifies the objective or the users in other than very vague terms that all hint at “the good guys”.
There isn’t even a hint of an outline of anything that resemples a plan. I will bet anyone that they have spent 10’s or 100’s of millions in research already with absolutely nothing to show.
It is digraceful that they are still in office when they act like that.
Many of the “best minds” in cryptography are in the NSA. So, let’s charge the NSA with coming up with a “good guys only” crypto system. And then have them publish the details, including all source code, for a peer review by the public so that real security experts can find all the flaws.
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Give them some real incentive to do the best they can, have their encryption protecting an account holding their entire budget for that year, so whoever breaks it first gets paid very well for it.
Clinton’s position on this issue is what finally caused me to switch my support to Bernie Sanders regardless of who the Republicans nominate.
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Sanders will tax you to death
Future Headline: “Criminals Move to Online Theft Claim Easier Than Physical Theft After Encryption Banned”
Reality Bytes
Hillary Clinton (etal) is like something that gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe and you can’t ever get it off.
These nitwits think unicorns are real.
They will be the end of us all.
Mass surveillance of a nations citizens by their “own” government is totalitarianism.
Just Wow
Do we Americans have the worst options for political candidates in the free world? It looks like we’ll have a choice between fascist idiot Hillary and racist idiot Trump.
Re: Just Wow
and redistributionist populist Sanders
Silver bullit
Wait, wait! I have the arguments to end all arguments:
– Encryption doesn’t kill people, people kill people!
– If encryption is against the law, only criminals have encryption!
I understand this works well with other constitutional issues.