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    FBI Chief: "Americans Should be Deeply Skeptical of Government Power"

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/jam.../10/id/600072/


    He then goes on to denounce encrypted hard drives that the government doesn't have the power to unlock:

    "The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law, troubles me a lot," Comey said. "As a country, I don’t know why we would want to put people beyond the law.

    "That is, sell cars with trunks that couldn’t ever be opened by law enforcement with a court order, or sell an apartment that could never be entered even by law enforcement," he continued. "Would you want to live in that neighborhood? This is a similar concern.

    "The notion that people have devices, again, that with court orders — based on a showing of probable cause in a case involving kidnapping or child exploitation or terrorism — we could never open that phone?" Comey asked. "My sense is that we’ve gone too far when we've gone there."
    Last edited by presence; 10-11-2014 at 11:27 AM.

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    ...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
    ...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...




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    So skeptical that they should fire his ass.
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    "That is, sell cars with trunks that couldn’t ever be opened by law enforcement with a court order, or sell an apartment that could never be entered even by law enforcement," he continued. "Would you want to live in that neighborhood? This is a similar concern."
    Why yes, yes I would.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Why yes, yes I would.
    LOL this was my exact first thought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Why yes, yes I would.
    If you build it, they will come.
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    Would you want to live in that neighborhood?
    HELL YES!

    -t

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    Would you want to live in that neighborhood?
    HELL YES!

    -t

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    Oh, I'm WAAAAY past deeply skeptical. Have moved heavily into deeply hostile now.



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    Last edited by newbitech; 10-11-2014 at 04:00 PM.

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    "The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law, troubles me a lot," Comey said.
    Yea, sort of a like an individual's private thoughts, memories, and beliefs, eh?

    "That is, sell mind reading devices to law enforcement that would forgo the necessity of a court order and render due process all together fruitless, or sell a facial scanners to law enforcement that entirely voids the concept of self-incrimination," he continued. "Would you want to live in that neighborhood? This is a similar concern.
    The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding one’s self in the ranks of the insane.” — Marcus Aurelius

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    Bless the power of encryption and curse anyone who isn't behind protecting your data from prying eyes.
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    The new FBI director was covered on 60 Minutes last night. For a statist, he seemed to have his head screwed on about as well as we could hope for.



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