zlacker

>>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
I got dizzy by your own confusion on this subject.

You need encryption for the same reason you need locks. Locks are not the only trick to provide you security but they are pretty much a very necessary tool. Without solid encryption you can't have a lot of the good things on the internet: online banking, online shopping, filling taxes online,...

> it is still pretty easy to create a virus or something that access the data at the moment it is used

It is not so much anymore. Viruses are getting quite harder to make, even for Microsoft Windows. And, even if you were right, you still need encryption for people that are smart enough to avoid viruses.

>>diego_+SK
My point still remains. Even if you have good encryption, pure reliance on that puts you at risk in so many other ways in which information can be accessed. Any time you see information, access your bank accounts, create an email, etc., your information is at risk, and that has nothing to do with the amount of encryption you're using, because encryption will only work during the data transfer/storage stages.