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by MCRed
3778 days ago
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My Facebook feed is full of people ragging on Trump for being on the wrong side of this issue, but they are silent about Obama: "In a secret meeting convened by the White House around Thanksgiving, senior national security officials ordered agencies across the U.S. government to find ways to counter encryption software and gain access to the most heavily protected user data on the most secure consumer devices, including Apple Inc.’s iPhone, the marquee product of one of America’s most valuable companies, according to two people familiar with the decision." |
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Yet, when he came into power, he changed his position and supported all of the NSA's programs. It was only after the Snowden revelations that he said "we need to have a national dialog" and then pushed through a law that slightly narrowed the scope of surveillance but apparently left the core of the programs intact. To our knowledge, the NSA still has a tap on AT&T's Atlantic hub that can scan billions of packets an hour. The NSA still is as capable as before, only perhaps a bit more circumspect about it. Little has changed.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVUwUCe1e-A