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Encryption: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 14.3M views · 2016-03-14 · 18:01

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Overview

John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on encryption and the Apple versus FBI dispute after San Bernardino. It explains the stakes of weakening encryption and ends with a fake Apple ad about iPhone vulnerabilities.

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Cited in encryption policy threads as a funny, accessible primer and for its fake Apple ad.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2018

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CryptographyPrivacy, surveillance & cybercrimeSatire & parody
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spdy · 2016-08 · Recommendation

Elections are coming and everyone has to play tough. None of this is targeted at terrorist as is does not even remotely make sense its all about controlling the population. Let`s see when they propose to ban math. Mandatory John Oliver on Encryption :) [VIDEO]

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ccvannorman · 2016-03 · Recommendation

I am surprised that a search for "math" only turned up one result in this thread, about car accidents vs terrorist victims. Isn't it true that encryption legislation or policy is sort of irrelevant next to the very clear math that says encryption will always be ahead of decryption? Even in a (hopefully avoidable) dystopia where encryption is illegal, would that really stop technology companies from continuing to do what they've always done? John Oliver has a great segment[1] where he notes that the majority of cheap, available encryption applications aren't even US-based, and so it becomes nigh-impossible for our (or any) government to stop any pedestrian from encrypting. [1] [VIDEO]

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dbg31415 · 2018-12 · Reference

Two relevant humor bits. * Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law - YouTube || [LINK] * Encryption: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube || [VIDEO]

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