Time for open source to become more common.

Closed source is becoming more and more dangerous these days, since software houses are no more free to do what they want 

there is still time for the US people to stop this nonsense and petition to their politicians, create organisations who will remind US government and its departments that they are going wrong way. You cant just sit and watch wtf they are doing. Take Turkey as example.

The terrorist filled us with terror.  We are acting scared, giving up hard won freedoms.  

Depending on how crypto-anarchist one is, one can claim that it bears the question of who are really the terrorists, the sandal wearing teenager in Afghanistan or manhunting agents that storm into wrong houses and murder everyone (mostly for the kicks and excitement of it)?

That shit is older than life. In Europe we know it very well. Just check what Strategy of Tension means - the US Government has used that tactic forever.

Just a hint on Wikipedia:


And now they are doing it over and over again, blowing up their own towers and killing their own citizens.

Apple just neglected this. They made encryption, implemented a protocol where clients handshake and agree on the keys with each other and need no server side on this. I doubt they actually thought about this too much...

Removing encryption would probably violate 1000 federal standards.


Here is the problem: The moment you do that, your program is not secure anymore and the important customers, business, will stop using stuff. Apple's imessage might not be a problem, but I have had businesses refuse using skype due to MITM problems. So we used Ovoo or Silent Circle.

This is ludacris. It will open more problems than it will fix.

This was linked on the front page of Drudge.

Sounds totally illegal to me, maybe someone in a position of authority should tell them no.  Next they will want a key to every locked physical door.

It really isn't just that most of us are lazy (believe me we are) its that we don't have real alternatives. Being locked in a two party system, both of which are bought and paid for by corporate interests, means we fundamentally have 0 choice. Sure they differ on social wedge issues (gay marriage, immigration, abortion, gun control etc) but when it comes to foreign policy, corporate money in politics, the patriot act, Guantanamo, selling arms to US sponsored terrorists, etc they are all exactly the same. We elected Obama because he promised us change. What did he give us? More of the same old bullshit.

We got fed up with it and responded with The occupy movement, how did they react? by kicking us out and ignoring us. Rinse wash repeat and fuck the general populace.

When your entire government is bought and paid for by the 1% writing letters and calling your congressmen is pretty much useless.