Thursday, January 15, 2015

Hardly Acceptable

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun carried a 1-13-2015 article by one Jane Wakefield about governments out to ban encryption in the name of national security interests.

The civil libertarian in me is alarmed by politicians like David Cameron wanting to pass legislation so government snoopers can go anywhere and read anything, with all encryption privacy set aside.

If they need a search warrant, get one. Otherwise, we will take a chance that the terrorists are plotting on online chatter rooms, because we do not need to live in totalitarian state in which there is no privacy from government scrutiny, whereas government operates in secrecy doing its misdeeds all the time.

Security experts argue that electronic access keys for surveillance by the government actually would create a portal of vulnerability susceptible to invasion by criminals, terrorists, spies and hackers of every description.

Let consumers have their secure devices with encryption and privacy maintained: let the FBI get a warrant if they desire access.

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