According to an article at The Wall Street Journal, President Obama has sided with British Prime Minister David Cameron in saying that police and government agencies should not be blocked by encryption from viewing the content of cellphone or online communications, making the pro-spying arguments everyone has come to expect:
“If we find evidence of a terrorist plot and despite having a phone number, despite having a social media address or email address, we can’t penetrate that, that’s a problem,” Obama said. He said he believes Silicon Valley companies also want to solve the problem. “They’re patriots.” ... The president on Friday argued there must be a technical way to keep information private, but ensure that police and spies can listen in when a court approves. The Clinton administration fought and lost a similar battle during the 1990s when it pushed for a “clipper chip” that would allow only the government to decrypt scrambled messages.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/16/obama-sides-with-cameron-in-encryption-fight/Remember the press conference the other day with the two of them where it was Cameron that was all passionate about fighting radical Islam and Obama beating around the bush calling the situation what it was? Then you had the pundits on panels on the big corporate channels (specifically Fox) whining about how Obama was being so nonchalant on the matter. Turns out he was just playing the script well and loose thus leaving room for these media personalities to gin up the viewers into thinking that the opposite of what Obama was doing or perceived to be doing about the situation was the way to go. Here's the big picture behind the scenes that was being orchestrated for and the rubes were being played for fools. They don't even know they were being swindled to tacitly advocate for more govt surveillance as the NSA not only wants to stem and reverse the anti-NSA sentiments that have been growing amongst the people and boiling over into Congress but to actually use the present situation overseas and the media's presentation that social media and the internet was the problem, to push for and solidify more spying powers for the all seeing eyes at the top of the intelligence food changes in the domestic realm.
