2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary is very confused about technology. It can be challenging, but also important for economic
development and quality of life.
Hillary should have learned by now that that poor management of tech resources (even something simple like email) can cause political and economic difficulties for the middle class and below.
That's why it's NOT a good idea to send every fucking tech job to India, China and Vietnam.
I don't trust her to do the right thing as far as technology, jobs and the profits being held tax-free, overseas.
She seems clumsy and awkward on maintaining US competitiveness in the areas of economic development and progress for the middle class and below.
We can't continue to outsource our way to economic justice.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)She will continue to do their bidding.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Is Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks a particular catch-phrase?
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)Hillary is this Hillary is that yada yada yada
Almost 1 month to the primaries. IA is ours. SC is ours NV is ours Super Tuesday is ours. You can have NH
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)In her comments about encryption at the debate, I can tell that she is clueless to the technology. She thinks that they can just insert a back door into the encryption algorithms, to let only the good guys in. This works two ways. If you build a back door into ANY software, not only can the folks you want get into the software, but those who you don't want will eventually break in. I know this having 26 years experience in the tech field. I have seen this over the years. I have also seen over the years that I do not believe that there is one politician who has any clue as to how the technology works. It is simply not in their areas of expertise.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)He didn't even answer the question.
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)I do not know the level of Bernie's IT knowledge. Regardless, he did not try to answer any tech questions incorrectly. If he not have a thorough knowledge of all things tech, he is smart enough not to pretend he does.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)and you know it. Bernie did answer it. If you watched it, you would know.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Hopefully That means once it is explained that what law enforcement wants isn't possible it will stop.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Which is what I explained. So I guess I can presume that you don't know squat about the technology, just like Queen Hill I.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)We in the tech sector have been telling them for ages, and they STILL do not listen. They want their way ONLY.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Would you like for her to attend ITT Tech or some other degree mill?
artislife
(9,497 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Last night she srood on stage and gave us a lump of technobabble that she clearly didn't know heads or tails about - she even said so. I'm like, okay that's fine, tech is a complicated subject and her expertise lies elsewhere. But that being the case... just say something like "I will have the best and brightest in the field on this issue" instead of trying to sound like she will personally be encrypting her mainframe databases at all the IP ports until the failsafes are all routed into the RAM drive.
It's not among the reasons I won't vote for her in the primary, but it did make my head hurt. She doesn't have to be some sort of polymath superhero or something. Hillary, staaaahp
riversedge
(70,204 posts)outs of technology--or how encryption actually works. She wants the Government to work with the technology firms to help with the IS problem.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)So she's sort of taking it upon herself to be something of a tech expert.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)IS encryption. She is NOT 'demanding' it.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)they're talking about, say is impossible mathematically.
You can't "tweak" encryption without weakening it or putting in a backdoor. If she wants to "work with The Big Tech Companies" she should actually talk to them first, because they're all saying the same thing.
When I consider the issues which are worth our collective "manhattan project" energies, I think, hmm.. fusion? Finding non-polluting means to power our planetary civilization? How about stopping cancer? Putting a human being on Mars, even.
But keeping people from sending encrypted snapchats to each other? That's the only way we're going to "stop terra", bull-fucking-shit.
And let's get real for half a fucking second, shall we? When Law Enforcement complains that they need these "vital tools" to "keep us safe" and they get them, what happens? We find out, invariably, that the "vital terror stopping tools" get used for the same old law enforcement purposes, namely, for the most part arresting nonviolent drug offenders.
That's what happened with the Patriot Act, remember?
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/10/patriot-act-warrants-used-more-drugs-terrorism
So, great, let's have a "manhattan project" and "work with the big tech companies" to make it easier for cops to search peoples iphones for pictures of them smoking a bong, so they can be arrested for getting high. Yay.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)If you censor the Internet, we will create another network within the Internet that is encrypted, that you cannot access, that shall not be censored. You can mark my words as a grey hat hacker on that!