WSJ: Obama Sides with Cameron in Encryption Fight
(WSJ):
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/16/obama-sides-with-cameron-in-encryption-fight/
"President Barack Obama said Friday that police and spies should not be
locked out of encrypted smartphones and messaging apps, taking his
first public stance in a simmering battle over private communications
in the digital age."
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If this report is true, the battle lines have now indeed been drawn --
not between terrorists and their victims -- we already knew about
that -- but between our own government and our privacy/security.
REFERENCE: "Why Western Governments Want to Destroy Computer
Security -- and Your Security Along the Way" (1/15/2015):
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001084.html
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them.
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