[necubi]

Are we all just going to take this seriously? It's pretty obviously a fake. Just look at the names at the end. Detective Laughlin Foo? Stu Pitt? Neither of which, incidentally, return anything in google aside from this presentation. There's also a clear divergence in style on the backdoor slides, and it reads like a parody.

But the most obvious problem: if the NSA or whoever had a backdoor to truecrypt and Android and iOS, they would not send that information to a local DA office to be leaked.

Please don't set aside critical thinking just because something confirms your biases.

[tylerkahn]

Incessantly cynical distrust of the government is the new blind patriotism.

[BetterLateThan]

It is impossible to overmistrust the State. If you could imagine the lows they will go to, you'd be working for them by now.

[Houshalter]

Is it really impossible? Do you think there is literally really no limit to what they can do or what they will do?

[glimmung]

No, but they operate at a scale beyond our comprehension, and use reasoning beyond our comprehension (or mine, anyway!), so it's not too clever to imagine that we can anticipate their limits...