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>>molecu+(OP)
To me, Comey is a man who has lost the goal in pursuit of his particular mission.

Defense, intelligence, policing, all these things exist in order to uphold the constitution, protect the "American ideals", etc. Many of his statements pretty directly show that he doesn't care about the collateral damage to innocent people's privacy or any founding principles, he just wants his mission to be unhindered. It's the same mentality behind police forces wanting to make their job less dangerous and more straightforward, by escalating use of force and trampling rights.

With this hypocrisy, as has come many times before (congress shocked and demanding privacy when the CIA spies on them, for instance)... I can only shake my head. Come on.

Encryption is our webcam tape.

>>white-+L
I don't understand why smart people have so much trust on encryption mechanisms. For any information to be useful, it has to be converted in some way. For example, if it is an image it has to be unconverted and presented as pixels in a screen. If you're typing an email it has to come unencrypted from a keyboard. Encryption only make it difficult to access the information once it is transmitted, but it is still pretty easy to create a virus or something that access the data at the moment it is used. In my opinion there are cases in which using tape on a webcam is far superior than using complicated encryption strategies.

>>colive+gG
While it isn't smart to assume that if its encrypted in transit, it can't be viewed by someone else on the other end, it is still necessary to have encryption in transit. You want to minimize the amount of places the data can be accessed by a third party.