News Flash: The FBI doesn’t want you to encrypt your data.

So, yesterday FBI Director James B. Comey criticized Google and Apple for deploying encryption on smartphone operating systems that they wouldn’t be able to bypass, even when presented with a valid warrant by police. (source)

Does he not grasp that the reason people want this extra security is because of government surveillance overreach and secret warrants?  They’ve literally brought this upon themselves.  When you deny people their privacy in everyday things, they feel it necessary to go to further extents to maintain it.  Were it not for NSA overreach, lying before congress, secret FISA courts and the like, this recent push to encryption likely would never have happened.

So, well done. I’m personally delighted that folks are opting to encrypt things.  Thanks for giving them that push towards it by being something of an overly attached significant other.


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