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658 points transpute | 5 comments | 06 May 23 17:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.292s | source
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Animats ◴[06 May 23 19:45 UTC] No.35844753[source]▶
There's an upside to this. It can be used politically as an argument against backdoors for "lawful access"[1] to encrypted data.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/about/mission/lawful-access

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voidfunc ◴[06 May 23 19:52 UTC] No.35844809[source]▶
The argument doesn't matter because the federal government and politicians don't give a shit about facts
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hilbert42 ◴[06 May 23 20:00 UTC] No.35844873[source]▶
Until their PCs get hacked and their medical and psychiatrists' notes about them become front page news.
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TheRealPomax ◴[06 May 23 20:02 UTC] No.35844896[source]▶
Sorry, what? This literally happened, THIS YEAR, and not a single one cared beyond saying "oh no, this is terrible, if only there was something we could have done!"

https://apnews.com/article/congress-data-breach-hack-identit...

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hilbert42 ◴[06 May 23 20:45 UTC] No.35845219[source]▶
Right. There'll be more, eventually something truly salacious will turn up. When it does keep well away from fans.
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1. hedora ◴[07 May 23 02:12 UTC] No.35847248[source]▶
Like what? Another homophobe southern republican politician gets outted as a pedophile?

A half dozen people testifying that our last president was a serial rapist?

The head of the Supreme Court whining that when congress appoints a probable rapist to the court, the double standard is that the court should be above politics, and not comment on such things, but the press covers it anyway?

At least two of those things actually made the news yesterday.

I’m really not able to think of anything sufficiently salacious to get any more shit on the fan.

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2. Root_Denied ◴[07 May 23 03:41 UTC] No.35847717[source]▶
Wasn't there a list of elected officials on Alzheimer's Drugs that was supposed to have been floating around that got shut down hard?

Also if you need another recent example you could reference Dianne Feinstein.

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3. hilbert42 ◴[07 May 23 10:34 UTC] No.35850012[source]▶
I had nothing particular in mind. But we only have to look at the long line of past political scandals to know others that are sufficiently newsworthy will soon turn up—ones politicians wouldn't want exposed.
4. hilbert42 ◴[07 May 23 10:55 UTC] No.35850125[source]▶
Despite my comment I'm not in favor of deliberately exposing private medical records of anyone, politicians or otherwise. My point is that the fixed and blinkered view of politicians won't change until they're personally affected or harmed.
5. Animats ◴[08 May 23 05:59 UTC] No.35858587[source]▶
That story appeared in 2017 on both NPR [1] and in the New York Post.[2]

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/old-school-pharmacy-hand...

[2] https://nypost.com/2017/10/11/pharmacist-hints-some-congress...