FoxTrot by Bill Amend for June 30, 2013

Have fun in Gitmo, Jason.

Mick Jagger at a recent DC concert: “I don’t think President Obama is here, but I’m sure he’s listening in”

cooking more snowdens?

Yeaaaah, Jason will have to deal with that lovely angry mob on his own time.

Actually, I believe a “back door” is a legal requirement for any encryption software to be distributed in the U.S., and has been for many years.

Yay! Cat video.

(But possibly only for software that is actually sold.)

OK, I guess I should have Googled this first. According to a story at http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20032910-281.html: “In response to lobbying from the FBI, a House committee in 1997 approved a bill that would have banned the manufacture, distribution, or import of any encryption product that did not include a back door for the federal government. The full House never voted on that measure.” (Related transcript at http://jya.com/hir-hear.htm.)

You’ve obviously never read “Bloom County”. It’s Holmes.

He’s a very smart kid. I was wondering if Bill you read these comments. As our prodigy son is smart I would like him to comment about video game addiction, have a sequel on that but in some humorous manner. In my greater family there are three members who are now either VGA ( confessed Video Game Addict in recovery), or playing just a little or in total denial of the obsession. Although I appreciate your strip has to be funny I also like it as it does make social commentary. Give it a shot if you like. Thanks for my daily smile too!

I hope the grownup Jason is a privacy advocate now.

Once your ethics go, the rest is easy.

Dear everyone: The correct name of the Bloom County haracter is Oliver Wendell Jones, as can be seen in this strip.  As his Wikipedia page says, Oliver Wendell Jones was named after Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., hence the confusion.

I wrote a free encryption program in the 90’s. I never thought about adding a backdoor and selling it to the government. Hmm how silly of me.

@ K.C. Fahel & Bruno Zeigerts – I have read “Bloom County” for many years and it is “Oliver Wendel Jones” not Holmes. Oliver Wendell Homes is the real life character who was an associate Justice on the Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. The cartoon character is a spoof on his name.

Keep dreaming, Jason, KEEP dreaming.

This isn’t fiction. We used that technique 40 years ago in Army encryption. The ??? was ingenious.

The kid’s a day late and a dollar short. He hasn’t heard about Tor, which is free and does pretty much what he proposes.https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

Uh oh, what will the NSA do to Amend, you can’t go around trying to subvert the will of the Leader…..

I call it…… Tik Tok