Re: He's right, but no one here will accept it
I've just realised that he is barking up the wrong tree here (well, duh).
If he truly is talking about SmartPhones, and that he wants manufacturers to make phones that the FBI can get into whenever they want , plus the fact that everyone else on the planet would shun such a device - wouldn't it make more sense just to ban smartphones capable of encryption outright?
That would actually be more effective, quicker to implement, and doesn't require huge amounts of capital investment/breach of rights etc.
I wonder why they aren't doing it that way? After all, criminals/terrier-ists will use devices with encryption regardless of what the government says so it will be about as effective in that sense. They can't enforce this shit outside of the US anyway so it's about as effective in that sense as well.
Perhaps when people are screaming at him that this would mean *anyone* could access their information (if no-one was allowed devices that encrypt) he might start to understand the nature of the problem? I doubt it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
