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Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Tuesday that encryption makes it harder for law enforcement to track down “evildoers” — and called for a “much better, more cooperative relationship” with Apple, Google, and other tech companies that are building uncrackable private communication apps into their new products.
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That's like saying "If you lock your doors, it makes it harder for police to raid meth labs". No, numbnuts. The bad guys will lock their doors, no matter what laws you put into place. All you are doing to making sure that average americans have no privacy.
I think they are quite aware of that.
This is the whole idea. Weakening privacy make it easier to snoop on political activists and opositionists, so if push come to the shove, they have all the material they need to harrass, discredit of even arrest those people. Ask anyone who lived or lives under dictatorships like Egypt or pseudo/proto dictatorships like Venezuela. Claiming it's for law enforcement is only a sugar coating to sell it to the same public that'll be victimized by this. It's like claiming they're trying to "protect the children" when the real objective of Internet filtering is plain old censorship of information.
Not only US!
Of course he does, I wouldn't also be surprised if Hillary Clinton is also against encryption. It's very hard for elites to keep control if people can talk behind their backs.
Ah more Bush Brilliance on the horizon.
In related news, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, Yahoo, and every other tech company will soon be coming out against Jeb Bush.
Haha, and wreck their public relations with their users in the process, while new services without such "cooperative relationships" pop up? I'm sure Google and others are all over this idea...
No surprised. The authoritarian wing of the GOP is in full swing. It's a childlike view of the world where only "bad people" do secret things.