Tell the white house that you support strong encryption!

[I hate liars]

Diane Feinstein is again pushing for a bill to ensure that our government can spy on all of us. Along with James Comey at the FBI and Senate Republicans, she is exploiting the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino to juice the fear level and pass horribly misguided legislation. Here's a good summary on Techdirt: link

There are many valid and important reasons to stop this corrupt, vacuous politician from getting her way. One step all of us can take is to respond to a white house request for comments. Here's the link: link

I posted the comment below, a few minutes ago. Whether you agree or disagree with my perspective, please take a few minutes to voice your opinion, and let the white house know what kind of country you want to live in!

Strong encryption without back doors is implicitly protected by the fourth amendment. Implicitly because modern encryption didn't exist when that amendment was drafted, but neither did technology that can see and hear through walls, which also exists.

The fight against citizen privacy raises an obvious question. What's the goal? Terrorism is a far smaller cause of death and injury than many other sources, yet we are spending over $100 billion per year on a low-probability threat that human intelligence is far better suited to battle.

That leaves the interests of the security industrial complex as the obvious driver for this folly. As a taxpayer, I resent paying money to fund corporations that care only about revenue growth and would gladly grind our constitutional rights into dust.

We need to stop this insane drive toward greater levels of government spying on innocent citizens before the amount of money involved is too large to stop!

[Nye Bevan]

1. This stuff is just an insane waste of time.

Strong encryption has already been invented and is in the public domain. Any bad guys who want to use strong encryption that no government can crack can already do so.

[840high]

2. You seem to be right - heard that

same thing on my news today.