Re: Could we have a 'Cell' for 'phones
What they want is the backdoors installed, but only them to have the keys.
...a situation that would remain extant until someone drops a USB key in a taxi on the way to see Madame Whiplash. I give it about five minutes.
This isn't a new blinkered attitude. They trotted the "millions of people in direct, unfettered, untraceable communication" argument out in the late 70's when the CBers were trying to get 27MHz legalised. One wonders what happened to the noble gentleman's blood pressure when someone told him that people can talk to each other in complete privacy simply by visiting each other.
The same stupidity is likely to continue for many, many years and will give people like us hours of golden entertainment, the likes of which we couldn't pay to have created. Give them a car that they can all pile into with wobbly wheels and doors that fall off and it would be the greatest show on Earth.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
