Backdoors & Encryption
2015-07-12 02:37:44.422553+00 by Dan Lyke 6 comments
2015-07-12 02:37:44.422553+00 by Dan Lyke 6 comments
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#Comment Re: Backdoors & Encryption made: 2015-07-12 03:41:44.675949+00 by: Jack William Bell [edit history]
Fron an anonymous comment: "These hearings will go quiet at some point and then three or five years later we'll find out that the result was some tech company caved to pressure and broke their own products for the government."
What she/he said.
#Comment Re: Backdoors & Encryption made: 2015-07-12 13:34:47.014653+00 by: hananc
They are not "techies". They are computer scientists and this is science.
I am disappointed that it was not written as such in the piece.
The correct comparison is not to unicorns but to perpetuum mobile machines.
#Comment Re: Backdoors & Encryption made: 2015-07-12 15:29:09.756134+00 by: Dan Lyke
Nobody in the U.S. Senate believes in science, so I think that distinction is meaningless.
#Comment Re: Backdoors & Encryption made: 2015-07-21 01:43:53.642823+00 by: meuon
Realizing that it's hard and harder to find people in the general population (not the geeks I usually hang out with) that understand "science". Or for that matter, logical thinking.
#Comment Re: Backdoors & Encryption made: 2015-07-21 15:05:15.771852+00 by: Dan Lyke
I don't know if it's harder and harder, or if I'm just more aware of the lack of logical thinking, but especially among politicians...
#Comment Re: Backdoors & Encryption made: 2015-07-21 17:30:58.740999+00 by: Larry Burton
Thank God it's more than me noticing this. I was beginning to think I was the illogical one.