US Pres Cand's Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley... All For Crypto Backdoors, Secret Negotiations

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 20:31:09 PST 2016


On 1/18/16, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...Bernie Sanders said
> government must "have Silicon Valley help us" to discover information
> transmitted across the internet by ISIS and other terrorist
> organizations. He thinks we can do that without violating privacy, but
> didn't say how.

time to lobby Bernie for warrant to hack approach. :)

consistent with tech building strong end-to-end crypto, too...



> But the most interesting comment came from Hillary
> Clinton. After mentioning that Obama Administration officials had
> "started the conversation" with tech companies on the encryption
> issue, one of the moderators noted that the government "got nowhere"
> with its requests. Clinton replied, "That is not what I've heard. Let
> me leave it at that." The implications of that small comment are
> troubling.

the spooks showed up to say, "easy way? or hard way."
  as they gestured at piles of money, or National Security Letters...



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