G+_Mark Swaim Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 http://www.pcworld.com/article/3043553/security/obama-on-encryption-its-fetishizing-our-phones-above-every-other-value.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jonathan Jesse Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 But I thought Mr. Obama was the president who understood technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_David Pick Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Jonathan Jesse He does. But he has personal feelings on how much encryption people really should have. Think of the concept of locking your door. It gives the hint to others to keep out. But if someone really wants in, they'll figure a way to open your door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jonathan Jesse Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 1st off I forgot the tag there. 2nd It's my data, I should be able to protect it and encrypt it in a way the government doesn't have a back door around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rick Heil Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I think President Obama, and others who share the same view, are wrong. Our phones, and more generally our computing devices, are not simply another set of physical devices that the government/state needs or must have control over. The classic argument does not apply. These are much, much more than simple devices, they are literally extensions of ourselves, storing, tracking and more so every day intuiting what we do, think, want and believe. They are more an extension of our minds and selves, knowing perhaps more about us than we know of ourselves. What could be more personal than an intimate moment by moment diary of your life, thoughts you've written, words you've spoken and patterns of interaction with the world that make you who you are. Is there anything more intimate than that? If we don't protect the devices that are extensions of ourselves then we are letting government - and corporations - into our minds. We don't allow government to force spouses to reveal details about us, why then not also our digital companions. Do they not know as much perhaps more about us than our natural spouses? Moreover do we not deserve, is it not a right, to have personal space to think and dream thoughts of good and sometimes ill. A place where we can reflect and work through who we are and want to be. Dare we think through a thought which may be evil to work out why it is so and engrain in our psyche not just that something is wrong but why? We agree that free speech means not only speech we agree with but those ideas which we don't as well. If this freedom exists in our interaction with the outside world, then isn't a protection for the sharing and working through our thoughts using our most intimate devices to augment our brains just as if not more important? Security in our personal devices is as necessary, maybe even more necessary, than security of access to our minds. If there was a device that allowed government to see into our minds and thoughts, read back what we saw, heard and thought... would we permit the government to forcibly peek into our minds? Of course not. So why should they see into what is not the next best thing and soon to be perhaps even better than the real thing - our digital minds. We do, Mr. President, want and need personal black boxes where all our thoughts, notes, ideas, worries, fears and dreams lie. These our ours and ours alone. Yes, a perfect encrypted black box that is ours and ours alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_David Pick Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Sadly, it is the next president the world needs to be concerned about on their views of personal encryption. Not the outgoing president. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Scott Clark Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 It's likely that Congress will pass legislation on this, neutalizing any court finding in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ronald Stepp Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Obama seems stuck back in the 20th century. Phones today are extensions of people's minds and self. Everything they are outside of themselves is managed and stored in that small incredibly powerful computer they carry everywhere. It connects them to each other, to the world, to all the knowledge of the world, to events happening in the world. To discount it merely as a kind of trivial object is like saying Food is just something we seem to value more than we should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Randy Hudson Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 If the technology existed today, the Feds would want direct access to our thoughts as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 The math is out there, only US citizens will be less secure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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