Thursday, June 27, 2019

Get Timmy to the meeting on time

Trump officials weigh encryption crackdown
Senior Trump administration officials met on Wednesday to discuss whether to seek legislation prohibiting tech companies from using forms of encryption that law enforcement can’t break — a provocative step that would reopen a long-running feud between federal authorities and Silicon Valley.
The encryption challenge, which the government calls “going dark,” was the focus of a National Security Council meeting Wednesday morning that included the No. 2 officials from several key agencies, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Tim Cook, this is why you are CEO. Here are your instructions:

All we need is that AppleID can handle contracts worth $50 or less, for now.  Promise that aappleID can keep that contract.  This gets AppleID on the board and we need AppleID desperately to prevent further ad congestion on the net.

Your argument is simple, NSA can see an verify that this restriction is in AppleID, show them that counterfeit proofing guarantees the limit is held.  Get that much done, and we can worry the rest later. Here is your theme song:

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