US Senate drafts most disastrous anti-crypto bill ever

[Clanscorpia]

I think if this happens LTT will become a global hacker group If this happens I'll hide a note in our safe saying if the NSA break into my room to steal my PC I'll be somewhere in Russia

[Yog]

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

https://www.burr.senate.gov/contact/email

 

Tell them why this is wrong. And if you do, don't be jerks...not only does that not help but the emails are filtered through aids and I seriously doubt they'll show their boss mean emails.

[christianled59]

10 hours ago, Astralify said:

Why do you think they're doing it? To prevent people from rebelling/organizing in the future, when things get even more ridiculous.  So freedom. Much demo.

People will find a way. Militias were formed before cell phones, who's to say it can't be formed secretly now? Truthfully, I feel like the US is going to end up like Rome.

[shdowhunt60]

How nice to see Feinstein branching her totalitarianistic demands outside of Firearms legislation.

[LukeTim]

This is what happens when ignorant people write legislation.

[Astralify]

1 minute ago, LukeTim said:

This is what happens when ignorant people write legislation.

Oh come on people.... They are not ignorant. They know exactly what they're doing.

[LukeTim]

3 minutes ago, Astralify said:

Oh come on people.... They are not ignorant. They know exactly what they're doing.

What are they doing? They're not going to help terrorism or organised crime investigations, because those organisations will use crypto of their own anyway.

All they're doing is putting the public at risk of cyber crime, including themselves.

[shdowhunt60]

1 minute ago, LukeTim said:

What are they doing? They're not going to help terrorism or organised crime investigations, because those organisations will use crypto of their own anyway.

All they're doing is putting the public at risk of cyber crime, including themselves.

They know this. Because that's not what this isn't about. Not for them.

[Master Disaster]

8 minutes ago, LukeTim said:

What are they doing? They're not going to help terrorism or organised crime investigations, because those organisations will use crypto of their own anyway.

All they're doing is putting the public at risk of cyber crime, including themselves.

Its about the being able to read and store as much data as possible, nothing more.

 

If the bill passes and the large majority of people abide by it they instantly have access to millions more peoples private data than they did before the bill.

[Misanthrope]

On 4/8/2016 at 3:53 PM, Jon1764 said:

I say let it pass, let them destroy the tech industry and ruin their economy. 

Actually, I agree: This fucking bullies need to be shown that some companies are big enough to survive without the US market and just fucking leave them dry or make it clear to the rest of the world "This is the crippled US device, the rest of the people around the world get encryption"

[Real_PhillBert]

Feinstein is nothing short of a witch. I try hard not to hate, but I really do hate that woman. 

[Trik'Stari]

12 hours ago, christianled59 said:

People will find a way. Militias were formed before cell phones, who's to say it can't be formed secretly now? Truthfully, I feel like the US is going to end up like Rome.

We certainly seem to be barreling down that particular route.

 

Presidents who seem to live in their own little universe, and a senate/congress that will do just about anything for a dollar.

[Orangeator]

4 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

Actually, I agree: This fucking bullies need to be shown that some companies are big enough to survive without the US market and just fucking leave them dry or make it clear to the rest of the world "This is the crippled US device, the rest of the people around the world get encryption"

Problem is, think about how much pull the US has on other countries... If the US really wanted lets say Europe or Asia to pass laws like these, do you think they couldn't get it done? Seriously just think about this scares me. The idea of no end to end encryption is absolutely ridiculous. I expect riots if this even is considered. 

[Trik'Stari]

9 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

Problem is, think about how much pull the US has on other countries... If the US really wanted lets say Europe or Asia to pass laws like these, do you think they couldn't get it done? Seriously just think about this scares me. The idea of no end to end encryption is absolutely ridiculous. I expect riots if this even is considered. 

It's being considered, and the "journalists" by large are ignoring it, meaning the general public has no fucking clue what is happening. Even if they hear about it, all they will know is "terrorist use encryption".

[Misanthrope]

1 hour ago, Orangeator said:

Problem is, think about how much pull the US has on other countries... If the US really wanted lets say Europe or Asia to pass laws like these, do you think they couldn't get it done? Seriously just think about this scares me. The idea of no end to end encryption is absolutely ridiculous. I expect riots if this even is considered. 

Not that much power I disagree that the entire world would give in. Countries like Russia or China stood up in opposition in the past.