<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>droopybuns</author><text>I wrote letters to my Congress critters arguing essentially the same point&lt;p&gt;It is disqualifying that a &amp;quot;leader&amp;quot; like James Comey would argue that the government can reasonably demand that private companies can protect customer secrets and give the government a secret path to access those secrets, in spite of everyone&amp;#x27;s failure to properly protect secrets (ala home depot, target, opm, et. Al.).&lt;p&gt;This is not the argument of a serious, honest man.  It advertises his ignorance of reality and utter incompetence of judgement.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Encryption Meltdown</title><url>http://on.wsj.com/1ZuzJHA</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ra1n85</author><text>Does this surprise anyone?&lt;p&gt;Nevermind that this all an exercise in charging windmills.  How woeful it is, too.  Billions of tax dollars spent in trying to defeat the inevitable.  All with a &amp;quot;constitutional scholar&amp;quot; as a president.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the Prohibition of the 21st century, just tinged with free speech and notes of a surveillance state.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Encryption Meltdown</title><url>http://on.wsj.com/1ZuzJHA</url></story>