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Wittes: Apple will lose encryption standoff in court, forcing Congressional compromise
“If they lose, I think they'll lose in litigation, not in legislation. The scenario in which Apple loses, or some other provider loses, is that they lose in litigation and then they have to go to Congress In order to change the legislative landscape to undo wha…”
Wittes: Digital technology makes sexual violence scalable for the first time
“And so this is in a Silicon Valley sense, the first time sexual violence has ever been scalable. We have perps that are doing You know, thousands of victims all over the world.”
Wittes: US confrontation with Russia will dominate foreign policy for years
“Adversary foreign power. Don't confuse it with anything else. It is led by a person who does not have the United States' best interests at heart, and who wants to reestablish hegemony over a region that involves a lot of countries that don't want to be subject…”
Wittes: Academic blogs fail because they lack journalistic editing sensibilities
“Part of the problem is that the blogs, generally speaking, that try to give voice to academics are generally not run by journalists, and so they don't have a journalistic sensibility in terms of what they're pushing people to do.”
Wittes: Cybersecurity became a partisan political issue in the US
“We have over the last year accidentally created a partisan issue out of cybersecurity.”
Wittes: Unopenable encrypted phones will eventually spark a legislative crisis
“More and more and more phones are showing up in law enforcement un openable. And this is affecting more and more law enforcement agencies more and more often, and we're having no debate about it. And the problem with that is then one big thing will happen, and…”
Wittes: Indiscriminate counter-terrorism policies risk re-injuring victims of terrorism
“If you don't do a good job of being discriminating you're very, very likely to be re-injuring victims of terrorism.”
Wittes: Tech platforms replaced governments as primary defenders against digital threats
“You don't look to the government, you look to the provider of your spam filter. You're vulnerable to individuals that you never imagined yourself to be vulnerable to, and you look to A very different model of defense than you, than we all grow up in sort of ci…”
Wittes: Elite versus mass movement axis explains politics better than left-right
“It's the spectrum I think about. It's an imperfect Understanding of it, to be sure, but I think it works much better than a left-right axis.”
Wittes: Partisanship will severely hinder US federal cybersecurity policy
“I worry that that is a, is going to make a lot of cybersecurity questions much, much more difficult as a policy matter to address, at least at the federal level.”