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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

"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

His writers are a bunch of geniuses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Learn mah name. Ah am your boss."

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

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

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

9:47 woah John is getting decrypted

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

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

Kudos to Lindsay Graham for learning!

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

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.

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

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!

“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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

"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

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

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)

Anyone else on a John Oliver binge??

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.

"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.

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

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

Gary seemed a likable guy.

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

THE BEST APPLE AD EVER!

The use of Eugene Mirman Here killed me 😂😂

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

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

Thank you John Oliver

And what happens if the people with the key become stalkers? Who's to say they wouldn't use it for personal means?

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

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

"we're barely one step ahead of hackers at all times" that's just the entire field of cybersecurity lmao

6:42 Duh, almost no government person knows even a nickel about technology compared to a kid.

This is journalism. John Oliver, you rock.

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.

I respect that guy for changing his mind. Its rare now for people to be able to admit to their flaws

The Lindsey Graham impression was pure gold 💛

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

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

"we're engineers, not wizzards" - nice one!

Join us as we dance madly on the lip of the volcano...gets me everytime xD

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".

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

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

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

Apple is correct on this issue...

0:34 “Thehts Roitt” 🤣🤣🤣

I like how many people from The Office US were in that little skit at the end there

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

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

Yeah I don’t want someone guessing my password and getting my data.

The boys at Ryan’s labs can make it hack-proof. That don’t mean we ain’t gonna hack it.

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

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.

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!

Gary being the guy who voices Gene in Bob's Burger made that surreal as that who I heard saying that.

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

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.

"It's a miracle, Lindsay Graham has met the concept of nuance." 🔥😂

What a brilliant piece of journalism. Incredible what a comedy show actually does a better job of journalism than most news channels. Keep it up!

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

That Apple ad at the end was amazing xD

"What, this isn't cool?" "Oh, f@&! No." "S#!+" LMMFAOO

There already, is a Masterkey to Millions of locks, its called "slim piece of metal" and it will open almost every Masterlock

anyone else getting video coruption at 9:45

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

0:33 kills me every time.

Bravo, John! Another awesome program.

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

Did anyone else notice the glitch thingy at about 9:40

Great point made!

I don't use apple products much, but I completely stand by them in this

FWD FWD FWD: hilarious bit from John Oliver

9:45 Looks like Last Week Tonight isn't encrypted enough.

All the people in this video advocating for removing encryption are definitely the same people now who would say the government shouldn't have access to anything of theirs.

This show is very educational. Sometimes you think you understand a topic, and John shows the other sides to an argument