Encryption: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

[@amazecat6213]

This reminds me of my school. They started putting up barriers so we couldn't go on sites on the wifi. Two weeks later my friend showed me an app for that. That was the rest of the school year. The school would find out, make it not work, and next week there's a different app that we could use.

[@coreylineberry8557]

VPN?

[@JoeyLindsay]

According to my district's computer administration, they can see you are using a VPN and they will block the address of the VPN server.

[@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7]

@@JoeyLindsay Of course, that depends on the VPN's quality and how good you are at tweaking your phone and computer to use it and hide your tracks.

[@klegul]

@@JoeyLindsay Say can see witch IP you are connecting at and look up if there are if VPN. So change VPN every time they block an IP.

[@kessaiaevaline4061]

well at least you all learned something at school that year

[@SoAS26]

Okay so now I have been watching last week tonight for 4 hours straight

[@meinenklinke]

The struggle is real.

[@GreenDayHInaMM]

IKR

[@SoAS26]

yes ..totally !!

[@IRPinheiro]

5 Hours/day for 3 days

[@outlawJosieFox]

Ha ha me too! It's the crack cocaine of political satire: totally addictive!

[@nigelcooper7886]

To Graham's credit, at least he admitted he was wrong and accepted the information he received from experts, many politicians (Trump and Clinton recently) ignore the facts and double down

[@yougosquishnow]

you think he would have better valued privacy after he was doxxed by trump.

[@BadWebDiver]

I have some real respect for Lindsay Graham, even if we are on the opposite sides of politics. He at least seems like a classically sincere gentleman and shows some sense of honor. And the fact he and Joe Biden seem good buds is cool.

[@fadingnebula3529]

I think it takes a strong person to admit that they were wrong about something, it's really brave.

[@zocher1969]

that is the weird thing about graham, i disagree with almost everything he says about wars and abortion and gunrights but he is a honest dude. He is what a politician should be in some ways, a person with a vision and the courage to say hes wrong when the prove is presented

[@Satsujinki1973]

BadWebDiver I have no respect for a man who refuses to come out of the closet. If he one day runs into a burning building and saves 50 boxes of kittens, Then I will have respect for him even if he is still in the closet. And Trey Gowdy? I don't think I'll ever has respect for him, even if he does eventually come out of the closet.

[@Redmanticore]

also, encryption literally saves lives from oppressive governments around the world.

[@zarakikon6352]

redmanticore, I agree. If Apple did make such a tool for the FBI; what's stopping someone in the FBI from selling it on the black market or to criminals, spies etc ?

[@riordan381]

It isn't very Correct. It's somewhat correct

[@archiebellega956]

@ There's no such thing as hack proof, unless you're physically hide your phone inside a really safe bunker, then made it so that the phone never interact with anything outside of bunker.

[@TheNinthGeneration1]

He talks about that at 13:50

[@TheNinthGeneration1]

Bill Pii the problem isn’t that’s it isn’t possible, it’s that it opens all apple iPhones instead of just the one you want

[@rakeman9523]

I like when a politician says something, gets informed, and changes their mind. There is honestly nothing wrong with that and I wish more would do this.

[@jon99867]

+Rake Man But unfortunately people think that's flip flopping and attach it with a negative connotation because so many issues are divisive

[@Katana314]

+Rake Man Absolutely; I gotta keep tabs on that guy. I feel like a lot of politicians would basically just deny ever being on the opposite side to avoid flak. That was some rare honesty.

[@R4ndomWords]

+Rake Man My mouth just stood wide open, when Graham said he changed his mind. Changing your opinion based on reliable expert opinion or research is something almost unheard of in politics.

[@chasesquires3045]

+jon99867 The difference to many lies in the number of issues the politician changes his/her mind on. If you are both pro- and against abortion and somehow decide that deporting Syrians from the country is a good idea after suggesting accepting refugees, that's flip flopping. When a matter that is actually highly controversial for more than just a "Mr. Trump, Donald" or any similarly uninformed politician in the future, that is where persuasive arguments are NEEDED. If nobody changes their mind and turns the tides of a deadlocked argument, then no progress will be made.

[@orun0810]

+Rake Man You sir are a reasonable man and I agree wholeheartedly.

[@geraldmerkowitz4360]

"Join us as we dance madly on the lip of a volcano" This sentence sums up by itself the world we live in

[@stellamoore2494]

now that is funny.

[@tobysarver8693]

OMG, that's hilarious! And it is actually true, that all companies are running hard to stay ahead of hackers, and still get a product out. I write software for healthcare, and much of my time is spent making sure the data can't be hacked.

[@pirzzzzzzz01]

and now we've jumped into the volcano headfirst.

[@vinnyibarra]

Im writing that one down...

[@GreenDragon11]

Archibald Belanus I thought so as well!!

[@amitnagpal1985]

His writers are a bunch of geniuses.

[@JensReuterberg]

+mvilcis genii would be more fun

[@alfonshomac]

+mvilcis their gender identity is singular, so it's genius.

[@antiantiderivative]

+and then i said "writers" which is plural, and "a genius" which is singular, don't match up

[@alfonshomac]

iamanenigma unknowntotheworld It's a joke. Don't try to be a geniuses.

[@Consoneer]

+amit nagpal He is the writer I think..

[@brcarter1111]

I never thought I'd say this in my life, but good for Apple.

[@JerryO1995]

this comment did not age quite well

[@originaler31er67]

@@JerryO1995 why not?

[@JerryO1995]

@@originaler31er67 Well it was recently discovered that Apple did have access to lots of your data in several ways. On one hand, they constantly retrieve and sell data regarding your activity to, for example, prevent you from opening any app that they don't want you to use on your device, and basically spy on you all the time. On the other hand, they had a backdoor in iCloud Backup, which uploaded your full iMessage history to Apple's servers, from where anyone could see all your messages because those were not end to end encrypted. Basically, they're a bunch of hypocrites who do not care about your privacy. References here: sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

[@hioyua650]

@@JerryO1995 I applaud you, good Jerry. The first person to provide a source in their information.

[@olivershaw4948]

@@JerryO1995 only real ones put sources in their yt comments

[@patriciabecker7050]

Thanks John Oliver and team for doing investigative journalism and making it funny at the same time. You are a real asset to the world!

[@powerjbn9283]

Patricia Becker How is this investigative journalism? I agree with it, but it’s clearly advocacy.

[@frankiefavero1666]

Wheatly Newman actually it's all "opinion-based journalism", not advocacy, as he's not serving any party's intrests. Journalism has been transitioning for decades.

[@sdude5538]

It's worth knowing that passwords are not encrypted, they're hashed. This means that by the time your "password" is stored it is a jumble of bits that cannot be converted back to your plain text password. There are ways around this, like passing all possible plain-text passwords to the hashing algorithm and creating a table which you can then compare to the hashed passwords. These are typically pretty tough to brute-force especially when using SHA2, etc. (It gets more complicated than this, but...you know.) The problem is that the data you're worried about is not the password, but rather the reason you have the password in the first place. This data is typically shared to servers using combinations of asymmetric and shared-key encryption. Asymmetric algorithms like RSA use a special formula that jumbles up you information with one key, and reads it with another. Through a clever series of key-shares, you can prove who you are to the servers, protect your data, AND not have to pass "passwords" to each other in insecure ways. The strongest encryption is that which uses asymmetric encryption to establish "passwords" for every single request for data. The government established the standards for elliptical curve cryptography. They know the best ways to brute force these algorithms. If they really wanted to get your info, they would get it this way...not with a password. They just want a very easy way to gain access to the data without having to brute force encryption. Not because they can't decrypt your data, but because it is very resource intensive to do this, and they don't have enough computational power to steal everyone's data at once. If you gave them a backdoor, they wouldn't have to.

[@ensanesane]

A pretty good rundown of basic encryption. Reminds me of this comic: xkcd.com/538/

[@Slimdante]

back door, if you build it they will come. not just your govt either.

[@Jojo_clowning]

Allen Hundley Get out.

[@RayzaRose]

Finally! Someone who speaks English!

[@dylancope]

Good concluding point, but I don't think your explanation is a "worth knowing" for people who aren't interested in the details of hashing and encrypting!

[@swepc9464]

Damn Oliver, back at it again with the superb videos!

[@zachary9385]

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[@xXbudred123Xx]

+swepc You were really just waiting until a new video got uploaded to say that weren't you?

[@Dani-ie6tw]

+swepc DURR PLANT

[@harucanread5310]

+swepc I hate you.

[@isaacburrows8405]

sick meme man!!!

[@nicholasprovencher7360]

"We're engineers! Not wizards!" - Said every engineer ever

[@dananskidolf]

You say that, but at some point I changed my work email signature from 'Software Engineer' to 'Level 5 Wizard'...

[@nastyachernomorchenko1065]

But you have a magic word 'fuck'!

[@tramper42]

Yeah, but only to those people that ask stupid questions that can only be resolved by wizards. Probably because the questioner do not understand what engineers can do. It‘s a vicious circle :-)

[@diegor9808]

Idk I feel like EEs are almost wizards

[@riordan381]

I feel you!! I'm a Cyber security expert but people still come to me to recover something they deleted

[@KonekoKimiko]

Jon Oliver impersonating Lindsey Graham: "Stupid phone. Learn my name, I am your BOSS!" 😂😂😂😂 gets me every time!

[@ronniejanuszki]

The BEST. 3:20

[@demeter-the-great]

No matter how many times I’ve watched and rewatched, one of my favorite lines.

[@sarthakmohanty997]

I think 3:14 is even funnier

[@Daggers008]

"enjoy as we dance madly on the lips of the volcano" this shit is so beautiful. keep it up!

[@Xaveze]

Holy shit, if you can make a POLITICIAN admit they were wrong about something, you know you have a good case.

[@CamilaVanilla]

Aka Hillary Clinton and why she shouldn't be elected

[@StardustLegend]

+Quick Dodge *Linty Grandma

[@Buzzy_Bland]

Camila: PresidentMooo I know this is 10 months late, but... Unless you were advocating Bernie at the time, this post is pure, unrefined irony.

[@zaratrustamaster]

It's more likely graham started being sponsored by apple, so he had to change his side

[@scottydog6713]

"any system that would allow a terrorist to communicate with somebody in our country and we cant find out what theyre saying, is stupid" is funny because you know what falls under that category? private conversations. private, face-to-face conversations fall under that category. every conversation that is not recorded falls under that category

[@LakeVermilionDreams]

If you consider "face to face conversation in a private room" a "system"

[@scottydog6713]

@@LakeVermilionDreams a system of communication as it pertains to the idea of a system being a set of actions or a method that works to complete an activity? yes. yes speaking face to face in a room is a system.

[@apassionatenerd.3564]

A conversation between to people is quite different than a letter or an email, because unlike those two SYSTEMS, there is no trace of what you said to that person unless you're recorded but you explicitly said private conversations. Those leave no admissible, court-worthy evidence of what was said, letters and emails do.

[@shrags1]

Isis and other terrorist groups use the Russian Telegram app to communicate and there's no way to listen in. It is a big problem, but not on the account of jeopardizing personal privacy of hundreds of millions of civil people around the globe, and frankly it's the broken window fallacy, besides it's not like getting into those devices will wipe out terrorism. I agree with Tim Cook

[@shrags1]

Oh and the mere existence of telegram is serving as a shield of Communist Putin and he's not happy about it

[@JesseTheGameDev]

Let's just make terrorism illegal. Problem solved. I'm a genius.

[@JoeyLindsay]

Harvard wants to know your location

[@gowthamsiddarth20]

@@JoeyLindsay lol😂

[@myquest666420]

It worked with heroin. I'm down.

[@piotrd.4850]

@Jesse Stewart Well, some already banned firearms, drugs, illegal aliens, unemployment ... ;) worked every time! xD

[@e32b61]

Did you just think of that right then? Wow! Elect this man president!

[@shoorveersingh]

I work in cryptography. I have never felt so important in my life. ;_;

[@RaulLopez-jj8ji]

How much money do you make?

[@licchavvilicchavvi3518]

;_;

[@MrPiccoloku]

+Raul Lopez It's about how much fun you have, not money. I don't think the job of "professional furry" will make all that much money, but fuck it!

[@dead_rebel]

+Raul Lopez That's... classified.

[@edu-kt]

+shoorveer singh and probably you will never will again, jk.

[@Kobe29261]

Kudos to Lindsay Graham for learning!

[@mitchellbland1655]

To be fair, the car hackers explicitly told the journalist not to go on the highway

[@dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593]

0:54 Those car hackers from WIRED are a good 3 years behind the CIA/NSA at least .... kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6KWf3yVrJamhNE kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXzWp56bqZWqptU

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

@@dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593 So were a lot of other hackers. The wired interview was very old news even at the time, some groups claimed to have cracked remote access to cars as early as the mid 00s.

[@Trainwheel_Time]

Way to completely miss the point! Good work.

[@crackingbreznuts3343]

@@Trainwheel_Time Some of us are academics who are working in these fields, we don't get the same points you do. We derive different conclusions from the same premises. Basically interpretation is valid. There are so many different ways to hack almost anything I don't think the NSA actually wanted to hack this guy's phone as they could have if they really wanted to, they just wanted to use this as an example of getting a security back door for the government so they don't have to spend time cracking it unless the NSA is really just incompetent which I heavily doubt because they have a lot of great agents. Most cyber security professionals want to work on more open source software as that is apart of the culture of programming. So I guess that is also understandable.

[@RAaronShook]

@@FakeSchrodingersCat pretty much any GM vehicle in the US with onstar can be remotely shut down. That was a selling point at the time in case your car got stolen. I'm pretty sure they had a commercial or a paid promotion on some news network around the mid 00s.

[@RustiRockstar]

Giving this video a thumbs up simply for John's amazing Southern accent. Editing for clarity, I'm well aware that John is British, I'm talking about the Southern accent he does at 3:21 making fun of Lindsey Graham. Thank you Mark Sorrell for adding the time stamp for me.

[@Bakslash]

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[@mike112769]

+Bakslash™ ....Yours is the best comment in this thread. Well done.

[@romanfox5368]

+Rusti Hill well, people don't watch him for the content of what he says.

[@iwroteect6880]

+Roman Fox speak for yourself, i do love this show, its like the funny news. Also this comment was this off and you somehow managed to miss the "Southern accent" and agreed.

[@romanfox5368]

Daniel Flores I'm not speaking for myself. I'm speaking for leftist idiots and racists like the people who bash on Trump and spell his name wrong.

[@ryanzarmbinski7446]

Weakening encryption is possibly the worst idea since Walter Peck shut off the ghost containment grid in Ghostbusters. But seriously, as a student of cybersecurity, I can say that breaking our current systems to expose flaws is what will continue to move us forward, and weakening encryption would be undeniably catastrophic.

[@synthetic240]

I need to use that line once in my life: "Join me as we dance madly on the lip of the volcano."

[@wingsandash]

With the devil. In the moonlight. :)

[@WorkerBeesUnite]

U just did, brother. U just did.

[@synthetic240]

@@WorkerBeesUnite In the proper context

[@superdyl]

That line belongs in “Welcome to Night Vale”

[@meepnope4389]

This show is so quotable

[@hazukichanx408]

You know, they've got a point here. It's high time we put a man on the sun. ... ... ...I nominate Donald Trump.

[@kosmaslemo]

Can we stop littering everywhere imaginable?? We need nor the flags neither the groceries of murica in space.

[@andrewharper1609]

We haven't figured out a way to prevent immolation in near sun orbit yet. And there are better candidates like the white supremacists.

[@Poldovico]

@@andrewharper1609 That... basically still includes the original subject

[@andrewharper1609]

@@Poldovico Technically that's orange supremacy.

[@emisthem6562]

Cheeto Man going to the sun it is

[@ackbarfan5556]

Well, I know Sarge from Red vs Blue needs this. His password is just the word 'Password'.

[@artietrasshko7141]

Aye

[@williams3062]

But some of his passwords are Password123. I'd say that's pretty protected. Remeber when Simmons, Grif, and Caboose were playing Capture the flag? It took Simmons like... 3 minutes of decode the password 'Password123'

[@FriedGold8942]

+ackbarfan5556 : That may be, but what about a situation where an access code is required?

[@JohnKerns91]

lmao!

[@williams3062]

As Sarge said, the password is so stupid, no one would guess it.

[@JeoshuaCollins]

Am I the only one who would be far more likely to buy an Apple if their commercials were like this?

[@La_sagne]

what william shaw said

[@jpkjnn6733]

+Jeoshua Collins Ha! I've always been an Android user and have never given much thought to buying an iphone, but honestly, this issues and watching this video made me consider what that would take and whether it would be worth it.

[@Dustshoe]

Would you not be more likely to go for Orange rather than Apple?

[@Dustshoe]

The vanity of people today! Your flippant remark, and it's only a remark, is reminiscent of the pompous talk heard in the drawing rooms of country mansions in early 19th century England as spoken by smug middle-aged men in smoking jackets and cigar and whiskey in hand. Pathetic! "Wooster, dear chap. Am I the only one among our close circle who is amused by the panic-stricken antics of our butler Stevens, when our favourite guests pay Saunders Hall a visit?"

[@DoomRater]

+Jeoshua Collins No sir, I think I'd want one...

[@ndgv2]

I love that they upload such long videos. You rock John.

[@aerialdarkguy]

Graham then proceeds to forget about his "lessons learned" and backs a new bill to weaken encryption with the Earn It Act.

[@LakeVermilionDreams]

Funny how much lawmakers' memories are inversely tied to the amount of donated lobbyist money?

[@ApocalypticJoker]

Graham is as big a joke as trump and pence How he's still around is beyond me

[@Marscow]

John Oliver, you are a gift to mankind. This show is constant quality of substance AND humor. I don't know how you do it, but don't ever stop.

[@BeastOrGod]

+Flick Are we gonna ignore the fact that *THERE IS A MAN NAMED LINDSEY?!*

[@Marscow]

Solitude Normally I would, but his southern belle accent makes me want to tease him. I shall resist.

[@spamwarrior8469]

"The nature of a keyhole is to be cracked, and the nature of the internet is to bring demons to the door. No matter how much we might wish it, there is no way to build a digital lock that only angels can open, and demons cannot." Some wise words from CGP Grey.

[@spamwarrior8469]

Thanks autocorrect for changing 'Cracked' to 'cocked.' *Now edited*

[@Cyraneth]

Gotta commend Graham. It's rare these days that a politician (or anyone, really) dares to examine the other side of an argument and really consider it without preconceived notions. Edit: Well, that was me being too optimistic, it seems.

[@joeaddington6716]

He had a preconceived notion, but he listened to the facts and changed his mind. So your right, "Gotta commend Graham".

[@Educatedunhousedperson]

It's not that rare. People change their minds all the time.

[@jamesslick9879]

@Dan Strayer when?

[@samlerf]

Yeah, what a nice warhawk

[@coldfusionstormgaming1808]

@@Educatedunhousedperson Keyword here being politicans

[@PaulMansfield]

I keep trying to tell politicians and their ilk: "It's secure for everybody or secure for nobody, there's no middle ground"

[@4cps777]

No, it's security for everyone or security for those who can't live without it (which *surprisingly* includes the criminals).

[@carolchen2320]

I am loving the weekly presence of John Oliver in my life, praise be

[@RoximRox]

Hearing the, from what I've seen here and on the Daily show, obstinate Lindsay Graham receive information and revise a stance on a previously firmly held belief brought an actual tear to my eye. Amazing.

[@Skerdy]

Gary seemed a likable guy.

[@H4hT53]

He likes you, too. And your family. Especially your family.

[@arthurvanderwal]

Keep the likes in sync!

[@Darkfyreofthezenith]

He does have a very honest smile... Pause at 16:30

[@Masseur796]

Its Gene from Bobs Burgers!

[@PrettyKennyful]

Gary is pretty much a description of all my friends lol

[@andrewmelnikov292]

Let's face the truth: there is only one man we can trust this "master key" with. As Batman put it, it's Morgan Freeman. And when even Morgan Freeman says it's wrong and you should destroy it, you know you're doing something wrong.

[@bazingaburg8264]

All hail Papa Hanks, death to his enemies.

[@whitefieldcat]

Apple's decision was right, and I'm saying that as a Windows fanboy. What has the world come to?

[@TechDeals]

It has come to where it always was, people thinking they know something about a subject they really don't know anything about. Credit to Lindsey Graham for being willing to listen and learning that it really isn't so cut and dry.

[@nerdyninjatemptress]

It’s come to a world where you are mature enough to admit when a company you might hate has made a good decision. Kudos to you. That’s really good!

[@gentianviolet2785]

Yes but at what cost?

[@sirris4330]

Ok ...easy to say...but what about people who might have a murder conviction they are waiting for and they need specific evidence on an iphone. The world is not black and white. Apple needs to understand this.

[@dananskidolf]

​@@sirris4330 Can you justify how that's more important than protecting the data of 728 million iPhone users? And if you do it for iPhones, you'll have to do it for android phones, then tablets including Windows, and you're up into the entire digital world of billions of devices. That data could be used by criminals - stalkers, blackmailers, ransomers - corrupt authorities, terrorists, shady marketeers, corporate and government spies and basically anyone. While the world is not black and white, this particular situation is, appropriately, binary.

[@sitearm]

15:38 best Apple commercial ever ; )

[@ac1dman]

+sitearm yeah kind of cheapens the message :/

[@marcsman07]

"If we can put a man on the moon, well surely we can put a man on the sun." That one gave me a good laugh

[@Bl00dnFl4mes]

9:47 woah John is getting decrypted

[@OlviMasta77]

more like video codec encoding decoding

[@gangstapenguin2773]

dawg that pfp is DOPE

[@loganiushere]

yea noticed that too thought it was a normal video decoding glitch at first but when it kept reappearing that made me sure it was a part of the video.

[@kermitenthusiast485]

@@gangstapenguin2773 jesus ur right

[@gjermund1161]

Apple is correct on this issue...

[@EvertGuzman]

+GoldenHawk93 in reality they can communicate over anything androids have this function too

[@aceous99]

we need to outlaw (insert random thing here) the terrorist could use it to undermine the nation. (remove liberty, insert oppression) Terrorists win.

[@GregaMeglic]

+GoldenHawk93 No its not. The amount of data streamed over our networks every second is so vast that you can not filter it. Youd need a yaer to filter a days worth of data from a bigger city, much less a nation. The only way you can get such data is if you are actively watching the person already. If apple complies noithing will change when it comes to terrorist communication. Itll only create a security risk for the 99% of the world population that are not terrorists.

[@cyberkartoshka6667]

Apple should have complied, did they really think that if they don't no other group will? They could have kept it to themselves (yes there is risk) but instead another group did it and who knows if they care as much as Apple.Grega Meglic

[@GregaMeglic]

Cyber Kartoshka Even if they did do it, some one else would still do it. Companies like apple are always 1 step behind the hackers. Doing everything they can in order for their users to anjoy at least a bit of safety/privacy, before hackers find a new thing to exploit. The risk is far bigger than you think especially with everything going over the internet, especially banking. If the so called "fappening" is not enough proof, i dont know what is.

[@5chr4pn3ll]

Lindsey Graham should be applauded for actually being a politician that changes his opinion in the face of hard facts. Rare thing.

[@dineshmani5623]

+5chr4pn3ll Especially Lindsey Graham, he is usually very arrogant.

[@warman13x]

I know... Truth be told it was kind of shocking. I think I kind of like it when politicians are willing to go back on what they said when proven wrong, or, even better, when they actually understand what moderation is. ...too bad I'm not likely to see much of either anytime soon.

[@PerthTowne]

+5chr4pn3ll I'm not a fan of Lindsey Graham, but I do agree with you on that.

[@EachHitPunk]

he got paid

[@TheRealMadJack]

+James Hughes In all honesty, someone probably told him the naked pictures of his wife/girlfriend/boyfriend might end up public. ;)

[@danielbr1993]

That Apple ad at the end was amazing xD

[@unvergebeneid]

"Wait, this isn't cool?" "Oh, fuck no." =D

[@Kittymouth]

"Apple: join us as we dance madly on the lip of the volcano" Sounds like an Apple ad from Night Vale.

[@gamerN77]

After watching every video of you, I am always stunned by the way you present so incredibly important topics with ease & joy and I am thankfull for that. The work of you and your team is truely impeccable!

[@Mystro256]

"We're Engineers, not wizards" best quote ever; I should start using it at work.

[@realshaoran4514]

+Mystro256 yeah, me too.

[@wickedragon]

When someone hands me a million rows of data divided over seven tables and asks to find some obscure set of commonalities they've been looking for for a month and I can do it in less than a minute I sure feel like a wizard. Are you saying I'm not?

[@realshaoran4514]

wickedragon I suppose some people would see that as wizardry

[@xWood4000]

I feel like this is going to be one of the best and informational episode.

[@socialmoon]

"Learn mah name. Ah am your boss."

[@deborahmcallister9815]

Yer bawce

[@jefflabbecomedy]

This lady ^ 😂🤣😭

[@NefastusJones]

"Sorry, Miss Lindsay..."

[@rockmonst3r]

Anyone get the glitch at 9:46? Seems appropriately topical.

[@JasonZakrajsek]

Me too. lol I thought it was just cause of my WiFi

[@ShaunGohKW]

+rockmonst3r HACKED!!

[@alessandrocwilliam]

There is a logical and rational explanation: Is Unicorn Vomit

[@RockyOutdoorss]

16:47 Hey! thats the voice from firewatch!

[@darksteel78]

+INeedToFeed I see Rich Sommer is still getting work. :-)

[@lidla2008]

+INeedToFeed And the hacker dude from the commercial is the kid form Bob's Burgers!

[@alexwason8292]

I'm with Apple. It's best to leave Pandora's Box closed.

[@TonyGarciaxProdigy1994]

+Wade Reese yup because right when FBI gets in... so will hackers and other people

[@philippenachtergal6077]

+Tony Garcia Yeah. That's assuming that some FBI agent won't just sell it or forget to clean properly the PC containing the backdoor code when he sells it. But of course, since any argument against opening that Pandora's box requires a bit of intelligence to be understood, it's going to be opened sooner or later.

[@rheiagreenland4714]

"There's an app for that" -Response to every question ever.

[@xl000]

Meh.. Apps were funny in the beginning, but nowadays I rarely see people use specific apps, apart from the browser and the maps app.

[@ancilodon]

I don't recall ever having had such a sinking feeling while laughing.

[@ancilodon]

+Theziggas msr Yes, come to think of it I expect it'll only increase for me.

[@harrisonangel5831]

Holy Shit last time I came this early my girlfriend laughed at me.

[@horsemask]

Original.

[@SirDankington]

You are not funny, stop trying

[@TykoBrian7]

or was it your boyfriend?

[@OrgaNik_Music]

What the fuck is this comment and why do I see it in EVERY SINGLE VIDEO?!

[@FinalSentinel]

niceme.me

[@twiexcursori]

Let's be fair on our legislature: making policy about things they know very little about is basically their day job.

[@Grobohalic]

“Join us as we dance madly in the lip of the volcano.” That is the most perfect summary of cyber security I’ve ever heard.

[@KentShepherd]

"Those who give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither and will lose both."

[@frostfang1]

Because nothing is secure. Protecting others is worth fighting for, but only if they can fight for themes!ves as well.

[@JonathanSharman]

+Kent Shepherd Your quote is *very* wrong. The original is: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Liberty and security are often at odds. Simply by having laws, we are less free. (E.g., we are not free to murder people.) But giving up some liberty is necessary to have a reasonable level of security. Franklin's point is that safety does not trump liberty. There needs to be balance, and essential liberty must be protected from those who would take it in the name of safety.

[@oregon3d]

Franklin talked about this a lot, and there is no one quote, just the ones that people remember.

[@JonathanSharman]

oregon3d Well the version Ket Shepherd quoted is absurd, regardless.

[@oregon3d]

True. It's amazing how people fuck up quotes. I sometimes wonder if we should have quotation marks on keyboards at all.

[@Abraxis86]

That add at the end with the engineers was incredibly cathartic for me having worked in IT, I mean this whole thing is just so emblematic of what we've been dealing with... forever. Crazy expectations from people who don't understand what they're asking for, and zero appreciation even if we do manage to move heaven and earth to make it happen. But this one takes the cake, and finally thank god some recognition. The demand itself is literally self-nullifying and now everyone has to confront that. Still this add misrepresents it a little. Hackers are not some greeseball like this with apple being these prim geniuses just barely holding them back. They're not holding anything back. The war... there is no war. This isn't like the axis vs the allies. It's like the near ubiquitous Cylon vs the last vestiges of humanity. And the fact you probably don't understand that despite how perfect a simplification it is on almost every level is just another part of the problem. The only reason there is a delay between security implementation and its circumvention is that it's impossible to predict every possible permutation of human innovation or creativity... it is however relatively simple to retroactively comprehend and circumvent once cemented into a static system. This isn't something that will ever change until, conceivably, we develop technology that can develop itself (at which point we may literally be the last vestiges of humanity running from the Cylon). And no ammount of "Do it.", "C'mon, just do it."*Trump style shoulder and [small] hand thrusting*, can change this immutable law.

[@rokyetti4875]

+Abraxis86 I was asked to pull millions of rows into an older version of excel. I explained that it won't work. I was told that I had to do it. So I connected the workbook to the table in the DB and refreshed. Brought down the production server and no one could work. Then I was told to fix excel so that it would work.

[@dianalynne7648]

I can always count on John Oliver to make a complicated issue understandable. Now, instead of just dismissing this important issue offhand because it seems too complex, he's given me something to seriously consider. Having this kind of knowledge is what ultimately leads to how we cast our votes. Watch, learn, absorb, and decide.

[@4cps777]

I think he made it a bit too simple. People in these debates often forget that firstly, without encryption one would be at a constant risk of man in the middle attacks (remember people saying that you shouldn't do banking on public WiFi? That's why.), and secoundly, encryption is literally just mathematics I think he made it a bit too simple. People in these debates often forget that firstly, without encryption one would be at a constant risk of man in the middle attacks (remember people saying that you shouldn't do banking on public WiFi? That's why.), and secoundly, encryption is literally just mathematics and good luck banning that.

[@thebobbrom7176]

I have never seen a room of Software Engineers portrayed so accurately in my life.

[@socloseno]

"..holding a gun to their heads and calling it freedom" -Captain America. Love that qoute.

[@potpu]

This is gold, specially the end

[@autohmae]

+euro191 yes, but is it rose gold ?

[@RasenRendanX]

Best Apple Ad I've ever seen. That shit needs to be on tv

[@Tenjeen]

The rage clip at the end kind of reminds me of our office, except we're struggling to make the apps completely idiot-proof (which is impossible)

[@hamzakamran7665]

John Oliver is the reason I do well in Social Studies.

[@hamzakamran7665]

+brwerw Fantastic

[@darmasmith5350]

This brings back all too many memories about the "effective power" glitch

[@DailyCupofJoeTV]

thanks for reminding me, I was so happy it didn't work on my iPhone 4 in other news iPhone 4 was and always will be a beast

[@joelvee]

Last time I was this early... I made an original joke...

[@ackbarfan5556]

Bravo, sir. Bravo.

[@jediknightfalcon]

maybe if you stopped coming early you could get a girl friend

[@stefano6867]

lol

[@jediknightfalcon]

***** and thats why yiu cant have any friends

[@jediknightfalcon]

***** when did i say you you weren't. Btw chicks dont like guys that are correcting them all the time

[@cmkidd9310]

The idea that the government should be given free reign to anyone's private information is horrific

[@PartyC4nnon]

Bless Graham for the humility to admit he's wrong

[@StruggleGaming]

He who gives up his freedom for security, deserves neither.

[@ArrKayCee]

You're still free if someone tried to get in your phone. You're free to let them and you're free to stop them.

[@ninjafruitchilled]

+Safwa It's a common paraphrasing of Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. This was first written by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor (11 Nov. 1755)" - wikipedia

[@kaihulud87]

+Safwa Its a famous quote by some dude from awhile back. Forget exactly who said it, but it basically means something along the lines of: If you are 'foolish' enough to entrust your freedom in the hands of others for the 'temporary' security that it may offer, then you do not deserve either when they are no longer to be trusted. TL;DR or: Lean on a cane hard and long enough, don't be mad if it breaks.

[@jpkjnn6733]

+ArrKayCee Apparently you're not. Apparently, it's illegal to do anything which ultimately keeps the government from getting in your phone. The reason this case is so important is because it's essentially an end-run around the whole "clipper chip" thing, which never got traction. If a system is secure, the system is secure. The only way to get into a single phone under that security system is to break that system - and once you break that system, you break that system for EVERYONE. And once you break that system for everyone, you make that system *accessible* to everyone - government, criminals, etc. The government is being deliberately dishonest here - they know that this one phone opens up EVERY phone to them. Once they're in, they can break into it any phone for any reason - whether it's lawful or not. Frankly, the government has lost their credibility and can no longer expect us to "trust them." Apple is doing the right thing here.

[@Sultschiem]

+Struggle Gaming You know, that's not the quote? The quote was: Whoever gives up a significant freedom for a little bit of security, deserves neither. The quote is quite nuanced. Giving up dickpics for being save from getting SURELY killed is not a violation of that quote.

[@RunicSSB]

I love this piece because it's literally the only pro-Apple argument I've heard that isn't "because people who lived 2 centuries ago who couldn't have possibly been able to predict what modern day society or technology would be like said you can't do that".

[@biocapsule7311]

Yes... this piece so far is the only one that I have seen that made a case for Apple. And they don't even have to pretend that throwing around words like "freedom" & "privacy" is an be all, end all to any argument.

[@williammartin3451]

It's nice going back and watching LastWeekTonight from when we lived in a democracy.

[@PCDelorian]

It was just hidden better back then

[@warbrand2]

anyone else getting video coruption at 9:45

[@displeasingcovers2089]

yes

[@HariKrishna-mi6is]

yes

[@ieuanhunt552]

yes

[@HariKrishna-mi6is]

ha ha ha

[@lukeanimal]

warbrand2 Absolutely I am.

[@symbolxchannel]

Apple should move to Canada... We would totally support these kind of values. And it wouldn't hurt our economy to have a tech giant like this within our borders. :-p

[@MeneTekelUpharsin]

+SymbolX You would have to do something about those huge taxes though. ;)

[@symbolxchannel]

Mene Tekel I agree... Canada is overtaxed. :-/

[@loucious22]

+Mene Tekel Corporate tax rates are lower in Canada than in the US...not that these large companies like Apple even pay their taxes though. Apple is actually the worst. They owe the US government over $60 billion in unpaid taxes. That money is just sitting offshore. Hence the debate in Congress right now to encourage them to bring it back into the US at a reduced rate (reduced rate to incentivize them). Some people arguing that they will be taxed at 5%, with no interest, and no penalties attached. Can you imagine not paying your taxes for years, the IRS calls you up, and you say "no, I'm not going to pay you all the money I owe. I'll give you 5% instead of 30%".

[@lotoex]

+Nala Noiram That like 1800s USA saying "The corn is the south" because of slaves, while everyone in the north eats cheap corn while also hating slavery.

[@sweiland75]

+Mene Tekel Fuck you. You don't even live here.

[@deepelements]

17:02 "what this isn't cool?" LOL!

[@evaluna8100]

This was one of the most informative episodes of Last week tonight!!

[@charlesmin7764]

FWD FWD FWD: hilarious bit from John Oliver

[@MyHeadHurts32]

wow! props to Lindsay Graham!! I am impressed that he ate his hat!

[@gailoconnor2681]

+Sarah Thought the same thing. A Republican being open to, and persuaded by, nuance and facts is as common as astronauts walking on the sun. Chris Mooney did a good job covering this phenomenon in his book The Republican Brain: The Science of Why the Right Denies Science.

[@vilmundurgunnarsson6601]

Watching this on an IPad. I don't know how to feel.

[@FinnTheWizard]

I just watched it on your Ipad too, should I tell you how I feel ;)

[@idg33]

iPhone 5S Gray/Silver

[@SinHurr]

Bad that you're using an Apple product. Always.

[@jonbjarnisnorrason8566]

ég líka

[@annikaburks4944]

super old pc, and jealous

[@hinglemccringleberry8193]

I agree with apple, I think that a backdoor could be so easily exploited

[@braveng7909]

The best part about the fbi vs Apple thing is they didn't get anything useful on the phone

[@rickjames8960]

The best part about this comment is that they wouldn't say they got anything useful even if they did. Any actionable intelligence would be classified. No point in revealing your hand to enemies who are watching the course of the investigation with everyone else.

[@braveng7909]

Rick James yeah that's true

[@killerkarrit2]

They knew from the beginning they were never going to get anything useful from that phone. He destroyed all of his other phones so no data could be recovered except his work iPhone which never had anything useful on it in the first place. The whole thing was a move to set a precedent for law enforcement forcing companies to to break their own encryption for them. As we saw they could break it on their own, or get someone else to do it. They want to force the companies to do it though because it's easier and cheaper.

[@braveng7909]

killerkarrit2 wow that's dumb

[@gorginhanson]

+Rick James By that logic they wouldn't have admitted that they got into the phone at all

[@abepresume8132]

This guy is a one-man Daily Show😂🙌🏿🤘🏿 Thank god he's on HBO so that we can hear those oh so beautiful expletives in an always golly BRITISH accent💯

[@Celador]

"Join us as we dance madly on the lip of the volcano". -Apple

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

"Factory suicide nets" And THAT truly sums up the world we live in.

[@SherrifOfNottingham]

Its funny how that vocabulary word for the day is not new for apple either.

[@timeslush]

"Join us as we dance madly on the lip of the volcano" hahahaha

[@hajtom6280]

I agree with apple, just because some are terrorists does not mean everyone is. The responsibility is not in apple's hands.

[@tomlxyz]

Let's just ignore all the other cases where they'be worked with the government.

[@aolson1111]

+tomlxyz They've worked with the government when it didn't compromise security. They even worked with the government on this case, giving them the icloud backup, but the government asked for to much.

[@tomlxyz]

A Olson Meaning, that they could give backups of anyone to the government.

[@ebs410]

As a novice computer nerd, I was pleasantly surprised by the research the LWT team did for this video.

[@liizzset]

I know right

[@meganteresa6204]

John Oliver i have learned so much watching ur shows, they are so informative and hilarious at the same time. Your my all time favorite comedian/ informative show host. I love you so much and you will always have the best tv show!

[@mechengineer4life]

I'm thinking "join us as we dance madly on the lip of a volcano" would make a great company slogan or band name

[@robbie2138]

+Jigsaw79 Mad Dancers

[@shmuelkligman7139]

Jigsaw79 Caramel Lava

[@paulhonor2347]

LWT writers and John: This has to be the funniest episode you've made yet! That video throughout of the Apple team had me crying! John: you may have magnificent caterpillar eyebrows, but you have a talent for delivery that surpasses your mentor. Between you and your writers, you hammer points clearly and logically while throwing in skits, songs and videos that are funny as moose face! By the way, thanks for having you tube content!!!

[@paulhonor2347]

"Are you a wizard?" - "No we're NOT WIZARDS!" "Are you sure?" - "YEAH!! PRETTY SURE!!! F^*K!!!!" LMAO

[@nerdyninjatemptress]

Huh. You’re right. They are magnificent caterpillars.

[@dananskidolf]

And "magnificent caterpillar eyebrows" was to become his favourite compliment.

[@AFKBard]

Best Apple Ad I've ever seen.

[@cathyleatherman3097]

Thank you John Oliver

[@JeffreyGoldberg]

I work for a company that makes a password manager. We work hard to make it so that not even we can decrypt customer data. This isn't to protect criminals from prosecution, it is to protect customers from criminals.

[@kylemagaro6979]

No one that fully understands this issue thinks that Apple should've done it.

[@TakeThisification]

I work QA at a software company, and I can say with absolute certainty that their portrayal of engineers reacting to a security bug is entirely accurate.

[@420Effect]

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Ben Franklin

[@dartog4967]

so you think we shouldn't follow the lockdown and get our elder killed?

[@georgebrantley776]

@@dartog4967 That jeopardizes others' safety when you inevitably have to buy groceries or visit your mailbox, so it doesn't apply. But if you want to juggle knives or smoke cigarettes (after making sure no one is nearby) then by all means go ahead--such is your right!

[@dartog4967]

@@georgebrantley776 driving while drunk is illegal, yet i've seen no protest against it. Aren't you free to endanger other people? And yes, you put other at risk by buying groceries but you don't have a choice.

[@georgebrantley776]

@@dartog4967 Driving while drunk is already illegal though. In law (and politics) there is a philosophy known as the Harm principle, which states that it is within our natural rights to exercise freedoms, except in cases where limits have been imposed for the protection of others. Those limits, of course, are often in contention, but I don't think anyone truly believes that disobeying lockdown does not cause risk to others. The only question is whether the risk you cause is substantial enough to warrant legal action. And yes, buying groceries is not a matter of choice, so inevitably there will be some instances of risk occurring all the time. Lockdown is meant to keep the number of instances of risk as low as possible.

[@dartog4967]

@@georgebrantley776 i agree that you have to put other at risk in order to buy groceries but does that mean that you shouldn't limit the risks?

[@hoopstar245]

When your about to go to bed and this gets posted

[@DtWolfwood]

Glad to see some politicians are willing to change their stance in light of new information.

[@JoshEckerman]

+DtWolfwood Yeah that surprised me. Kind of almost gives you hope...

[@LyricalDJ]

+DtWolfwood It probably helps that Silicon Valley makes a lot of money and therefore can make a powerful lobby if they want to. But maybe I'm too harsh on mr. Graham?

[@jubairahmed9833]

+DtWolfwood yes which is a rare case.

[@Rebazar]

+DtWolfwood As much as I'd like that to be true, I assume there are unspoken political reasons for his sudden change of heart.

[@aserta]

+DtWolfwood Yeah, but the problem is most of them talk before their brains catch up to it. It's like diarrhea and by the time they come up with a retraction (which as with this case was "forced" and not something he went on to say "hey, people, i made a stupid, here's this and that") the damage is done. Wouldn't it be better if each and every one of these brainless morons would be forced, by law, to study the subject they are either asked to represent or testify or speak or whatever they have the impression to be doing at the time they are hit by the verbal version of a "100$ worth of chipotle binge"?

[@lyonheart501st]

"...No one ever asked, what happens when the enemy steals the keys..."

[@Warlock1515]

THE BEST APPLE AD EVER!