True! That's why I don't understand the issue at all. It's probably the reasen the FBI went in the open, to get public presure to get what they want.
Anyway, China and Russia also act to their laws so we cannot rely on that. What if Trump takes his first shit in the White House and wipes his ass with every privacy law he can find?
Hackers should be independent of laws, provide for their own tooling which can protect people like Snowden.
People who care about privacy must take care of themselves. And if some terrorist decides to kill people and use a 4digit passphrase I won't defend the guy.
I'm not against privacy, on the contrary, having worked on compliancy/risk management software. (Some of) you guys have no idea about the crazy amount of data which is acquired about almost every person with a SSN. Kept in hundreds of databases, balancing on legal boundaries.
I see your point. In the case of countries without a strong rule of law one doesn't want to rely on legislation to protect data. Better to possess a technical means then.
Where my opinion differs is regarding "[people] who care about privacy must take care of themselves." I don't think an activist should have deep technical knowledge of cryptography in order to do activism. Doing so establishes a de facto barrier to entry. (Cryptography is hard, and not everyone has the means to acquire the expertise.)
I would actually go a step farther and advocate a responsibility of knowledgeable hackers to provide activists (whose objectives they agree with) with the tools needed to communicate securely. In the age of media ubiquity, privacy rights are sacrosanct. Something along the lines of what Open Whisper Systems is doing.
As for the terrorists case, I won't defend them or their actions. However it's still a provable fact that the FBI was in possession of a means to access the data they are seeking, yet they chose to deliberately reset the passcode and create a need for this additional access. Viewed in the kindest light possible, it's incompetency. Assuming the worst, it's an attempt to manipulate the media and the public into giving them more invasive tools to surveil citizens.
Anyway, China and Russia also act to their laws so we cannot rely on that. What if Trump takes his first shit in the White House and wipes his ass with every privacy law he can find?
Hackers should be independent of laws, provide for their own tooling which can protect people like Snowden.
People who care about privacy must take care of themselves. And if some terrorist decides to kill people and use a 4digit passphrase I won't defend the guy.
I'm not against privacy, on the contrary, having worked on compliancy/risk management software. (Some of) you guys have no idea about the crazy amount of data which is acquired about almost every person with a SSN. Kept in hundreds of databases, balancing on legal boundaries.
All made possible by law...