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Former NSA GC: Google and Apple could be hurting themselves by encrypting their operating systems

article published on 6 November, 2014

Former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker had some interesting thoughts on current U.S. technology companies, specifically their choices to encrypt. "The state department has funded some of these tools, such as Tor, which has been used in Arab Spring revolutions or to get past the Chinese firewall, but these crypto wars are mainly being fought between the American government and American ... [ read the full article ]

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Morreale
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_ 		6. November 2014 @ 20:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wtf? I thought the only thing that kept BB relevant WAS the security. Hence all of the government and corporate contracts they acquire and maintain to supply devices for, and the fact that they're trying to push their security onto other platforms so business can choose to turn away from their hardware but they can still get a cut of the pie. Propaganda, or am I missing something?.

I just switched to a Q10 and I think its great, btw.
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Menion
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_ 		7. November 2014 @ 04:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This sounds just like something someone would say if they were irritated their work was going to be more difficult. Every press release the NSA has made since Snowden has convinced me they think the American population is literately retarded. Of course they would be pissed if Google & Apple actually encrypted their data, but seeing it will most likely not be open encryption and money buys back doors, I wouldn't trust it regardless.
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