DNC Hacks and Leaky Government Make Encryption Restrictions Look More Foolish Than Ever

‘How telling is it that in the summer of the hacker, when politicians have been repeatedly (and entertainingly!) humiliated by unauthorized access to information, FBI Director James Comey is still wagging his finger at the American public, chastising us for our insistence on protecting privacy by encrypting our gadgets and communications.
‘In the first 10 months of this fiscal year, our examiners received 5,000 or so devices from state and local law enforcement asking for our help, with a search warrant, to open those devices. About 650 of them we could not open. We did not have the technology. We can’t open them. They are a brick to us,’ he told the American Bar Association annual meeting.’
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