Where do the presidential candidates stand on encryption?

Tall Paul wrote:

Anybody want to make a bet that the FBI already has the text of every email ever sent to or from that phone?

The NSA is not nearly as cooperative with other agencies as the public believes...

XregnaR wrote:

Another thought - it has been stated repeatedly in the press that the Paris attackers did not encrypt any of their communications.  If they can't catch these guys when they DON'T encrypt, how the fuck do they think this will help?

They probably don't.  This has snowballed to the point that every small petty person with power and a hard-on against "X The Unknown" is just trying to grab whatever they can.  I still think the sheer volume of young teen ass and dick pictures makes this all laughable.

16 yr old twitter teenmonster "penis" responds...

Everyone loves a leaked secret memo.

Just in case you forgot Silverpush, shhhh

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Thanks, Obama.

As Donald Trump gets closer to locking up the Republican nomination and therefore one step closer to the presidency, it's worth looking back at one of the Obama administration's most troubling legacies: specifically, the national security precedents that have allowed the US to spy on countless people and kill without accountability. The prospect now - a terrifying one - is of Trump in charge of this vast apparatus.

The NSA, skinning cats one way or another.

The Brennan Center has released a report on EO 12333, the executive order that regulates the NSA's overseas surveillance. Much of what the NSA does here is secret and, even though the EO is designed for foreign surveillance, Americans are regularly swept up in the NSA's collection operations:

Quelle surprise - proposed EU-US Privacy Shield doesn't actually shield your privacy.

In February, the Article 29 group outline outlined four conditions for the proposed Privacy Shield to meet the standards of EU legislation and protect human rights during the gathering of intelligence. The leaked portions of the Article 29 assessment suggest that the group does not feel all the conditions have been satisfied, which means that it cannot support the European Commission's "adequacy decision"--essentially, a statement that Privacy Shield is good enough to be used.

Although that rejection would be a major blow for the European Commission, approval by the Article 29 group is not required to implement the Privacy Shield framework. The Commission would probably go ahead anyway, since it is under great pressure from the US government, and from companies on both side of the Atlantic, to bring in a replacement for Safe Harbour to resolve the present uncertainties.

Not the direction of change we were looking for.

Perhaps most remarkably, however, the Obama Justice Department has pressed legal theories even more expansive and extreme than Yoo himself was willing to embrace. Yoo rounded out his Stellar Wind memo with an effort to reassure Judge Kollar-Kotelly that the government's legal interpretation had limits, saying: "Just to be clear in conclusion. We are not claiming that the government has an unrestricted right to examine the contents of all international letters and other forms of communication." But that is essentially the power the NSA claims today when it conducts Upstream surveillance of Americans' Internet communications. . . . In other words, today the Obama administration is defending surveillance that was a bridge too far for even John Yoo.

Well here's a shocker

The only useful information to come out of all of this is that Apple's encryption was not hacker proof, and they knew it.

Even though this bill is going nowhere, I guess it's encouraging anyway.

The US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved legislation requiring that the authorities get a court warrant to obtain e-mail stored in the cloud.

There was no immediate date set for a floor vote on the Email Privacy Act, which would unwind a President Ronald Reagan-era law that allows the authorities to access e-mail from service providers without a warrant if the message is at least 180 days old.

Aren't you glad we fought to free Kuwait?

Deputy PM and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled Al-Sabah formed a special committee to study the method of putting law number 78/2015 pertaining building a DNA database into practice. Preparations are in progress now to set the regulating charter and commence taking mandatory samples from all citizens, residents and visitors.

square wrote:

Aren't you glad we fought to free Kuwait?

Actually, yes.  And for the same reason we fought, cheap oil/gasoline.  And they're really the most pro-American country in the Middle East, fuck Israel.  I'm surprised that somebody hasn't proposed the same thing here.  And I'm not sure that I'd be opposed to it if they did.

There is no such thing as secure, only secure enough.

Really smiling.

Until recently, however, there was at least one substantive limitation on the FBI's ability to query Section 702 data. As reported by the PCLOB [Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board], the FBI's minimization procedures provided that queries must be "reasonably designed" to "find and extract" either "foreign intelligence" or "evidence of a crime." This was a far cry from the probable cause that would be needed to obtain a warrant, but it was something. The FBI, at least on paper, could not simply go on a fishing expedition through the warrantlessly obtained data.

As of November 2015, it appears that limitation no longer exists. Displaying the intelligence community's penchant for defining well-understood terms to mean something entirely different, the FBI's most recent minimization procedures, in the FISC's words, "clarify that a search of an FBI storage system containing raw-FISA acquired information does not constitute a 'query' within the meaning of the procedures if the user conducting the search does not receive access to unminimized Section 702-acquired information in response to the search."

Just incase this hasn't been posted here yet...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/com … 2016-news/

FBI is fast becoming the home of wannabe spies, hiding information from courts and even prosecutors.

The FBI guards its high-tech secrets so carefully that officials once warned agents not to share details even with federal prosecutors for fear they might eventually go on to work as defense attorneys, newly disclosed records show.

A supervisor also cautioned the bureau's "technically trained agents" in a 2003 memo not to reveal techniques for secretly entering and bugging a suspect's home to other agents who might be forced to reveal them in court. "We need to protect how our equipment is concealed," the unnamed supervisor wrote.

“An example of an inappropriate ‘self search’ would be to use the database to remind yourself where you have travelled so you can update your records,” a policy added to the documents in 2001 says. “This is not a proportionate use of the system, as you could find this information by another means (i.e. check the stamps in your passport or keep a running record of your travel) that would avoid collateral intrusion into other people’s data.”

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Ah a massive Trillion dollar secret goverment spy project that took the gutting ol civil liberties for billions of people to create, used for the most banal purposes by its masters. Well can you really blame them, that is a damn sight easier in filling out those procrastinated expense sheets. Imagine the hassle if they had to turn to the private sector to remember where they had been. Might have to create accounts and logins and all that nonsense.

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