Absolutely Disgusting: Eric Holder Implies That Mobile Encryption Will Lead To Dead & Abused Kids
Found on Techdirt on Wednesday, 01 October 2014
At this point, it's all too predictable that when anyone in power is getting ready to take away your rights, they'll figure out a way to claim that it's "for the children!" The statements over the past week by law enforcement, Comey and now Holder are clearly a coordinated attack -- the start of the new crypto wars (a repeat of what we went through a decade and a half ago), designed to pass some laws that effectively cripple encryption and put backdoors in place.
For years it's been looking to do things like reopen wiretapping statutes like CALEA and mandate wiretap backdoors into all sorts of technology.
It was so obvious that arguments like these are made by officials. Sorry, but this is not working anymore. Crying wolf only works for a limited time, and now they have lost even the last bit of credibility that was left. People won't buy those strawman arguments anymore.