New ‘backdoor’ legislation coming?

Sometimes Governments and people can go to far.  Why have passwords if they can be looked at?

James Comley is playing the 'crime card.'  Its a variation on a theme that has been, and continues to be played by secretive portions of governments.  We have to negate your rights from the bill of rights in order to protect you from 'terrorists.' Same dance, same tune.  Sad.

If finding and stopping terrorists means they occasionally look at my data, I could care less. I have nothing to hide and if it stops terrorists, I am all for it. 

The problem is everyone will eventually be treated as (potential) terrorist. This is scary.

Tom, without a proper warrant much of the Bill of Rights becomes meaningless.

The question isn't about "I have nothing to hide", since anything can be twisted and changed if they have access. 

It's about doing things lawfully. Law Enforcement has upped and upped the numbers of "requests" for information from ISPs. They endlessly play the fear card as Elana pointed out. They have combat gear most armies would envy, again for the "what if" that never materializes but engenders fear in regular folks unequipped with anything but allows endless spending to keep the factories churning...as if they aren't the first to cite "the lone wolf" every time their surveillance fails.

Better to keep them honest, and to keep the FISA courts honest with constant review. Nope...no backdoors. 

Any backdoor they establish will end up compromising security and result in identity theft, etc. By the way, that money ends up financing those bad guys, along with the money we pay for gas.

I see your point Doc about the Bill of Rights, but if there is no other recourse in getting rid of terrorists, I personally would give up some of those rights just to do so. As far as backdoor's being opened, that would happen no matter what, as the greed and corruption of the human race is overcoming all morals in today's societies. 

As I've said before, the notion that they have to know everything in order to know anything is BS.  Comey's comments just demonstrate the corrupt laziness of the FBI.  Even when they have terrorist information (see Tsarnaev), they fuck it up so why in the world would I want them reading my emails and texts, whether I have something to hide or not?  Remember how the evil little fuck Hoover used dirt (not crimes, just dirt) to control and subvert elected officials?  Given access to everything, they will go there.  They are incapable of not going there.  The FA is the last line of defense against tyranny.

Tom's a terrorist!

Correct.

9/11 as well as the Tsarnaevs.

The politics of fear... if there isn't something definite/proven to worry about, then we'll create it.

As for the bad guys walking away, well it's already too late.  Sadly, they slipped through the cracks and became government/officials.

Don't do it. Your privacy is one of the utmost sacred rights we have. Also, you have the right to not incriminate your self, so if they can access your PC or phone they can review and distort any way they want. Don't trust the Gov.(local-Fed) and never will.

That says it all, right there.  Hopefully Mr. Comey can find a more responsible solution to his dilemma.

This isn't a time to be joking, with the Ebola threat the US is a country under siege.

***couldn't care less

Very effective. Keeps the local yokels in check. Focuses their attention elsewhere rather than on those paid to 'protect' their sanctity. Create the monster then show the monster as pure evil. Joe shmoe sees only the evil monster but remains blind to its creator, the very ones who are paid to 'protect' them. Knowledge is a powerful weapon. As long as that knowledge is kept from the masses corruption reigns supreme. Corporate entities control Uncle Sam, not the politicos who ride the desk. Corporate entities are all about money, what it can do and who it can buy. Big money tells the three lettered agencies where to look and at whom. The quote above is their primary weapon and used to great effect. A country under siege? Oh yeah...but from within. Enterovirus #68 is a good example. All those children from South America allowed into the country...among them the virus that has already taken one life. Why did they come here? Easy...to escape the corruption down south ie the drug wars, slavery and what have you. To them...no choice. Ebola...here in three places already. Dallas, Boston and Cleveland. Lazy monitoring has seen to that, mistakes made and other nonsense. 

Ramble ramble.

Again...time to remind all....'bill of rights' affects 6% of the global population.

In real life it is meaningless and parochial.  The Internet is global...it is not an American Institution.

Whether or not the proposed intrusions into one's privacy is actually socially or morally wrong....that's the more relevant question....and in our modern times of innocents being publicly beheaded for the sexual gratification of slobbering retards on facebook....who really has a right to give a shit about 'personal privacy'?

The question of government agency sponsored (with our money) holes in our security to be exploited has relevancy to some. 

Put the affected hard drives on your machine and by extension, it has relevancy for you as well. It's your choice whether that's meaningful to you or not...others feel differently.

Warrantless or 'rubber stamped' warrants are a severe compromise of 6% of the world's population's (actually as many as use the software/drives) rights as guaranteed by that government.

You, and everyone else.  The fact that 'only 6% of the world's population has a bill of rights' is an indictment of the other 94, not an excuse to not give a shit.

.02, YMMV & all that.

Probably half of that 6% are on Facebook and twitter, et al and thus demonstrate they really don't care at all...;)

Jafo, there's a radical difference in what can be accessed by the government in your computer, cloud storage and external drives as well as your email accounts, etc. by having a 'backdoor' which they's never, ever access without a warrant (oh yeah), and a crumby facebook account.

Well, there IS that.