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By the end of 18, well in the army be down to about 233,000 of civilian employees. I havent done the exact math, but its roughly equivalent to the percentage reduction we have in our instrength as well. We cant do what we need to do as an army without these civilians doing it. You were very gracious in noting that, but do have to be in balance. When it comes to the operational force, youve stated it very correctly. Were challenged on all three of those legs right now, frankly. But particularly given the environment that were seeing across the globe and the likelihood of that next unforeseen thing, which is another thing that keeps me up at night, readiness has to be our number one concern at the moment. Weve managed our developmental programs. We have set aside our major acquisition programs for major developmental programs for the 2020s and beyond not because we think thats the best thing for our soldiers, but because its required by this fiscal reality. Rather what wed like to have f ....
Just a quick bit on passcode. We launched in february of this year. We bring some of the biggest issues facing the internet. If you were here this morning, youll agree this is one of them. We hope youll come to more of them, especially in october where we have a full slate of them here in d. C. We hope youll listen to our podcast. Subscribe to our newsletter. This is clearly an issue where it seems like theres this immovable force about National Needs and Law Enforcement being im sorry, immovable object, unstoppable forceover technology and business. Were here to figure out how to move this ahead. How to move this discussion passed what seems like the past. So let me welcome in brett hanson from dell. Bret is the executive director of dell Data Security. Is your mic on . Sounds good. Its on. Its on. Umhmm. Is it going . ....
Wed like to start with a few thanks, dell, the Internet Society and cspan, our friends that are bringing this to you live online. The st. Regis hotel and our friends move on to the keynote interview and then well go to a great panel with ciar rag from the department of justice. Just a quick bit on passcode. We launched in february of this year. We bring some of the biggest issues facing the internet. If you were here this morning, youll agree this is one of them. We hope youll come to more of them, especially in october where we have a full slate of them here in d. C. We hope youll listen to our podcast. Subscribe to our newsletter. This is clearly an issue where it seems like theres this immovable force about National Needs and Law Enforcement being im sorry, immovable object, unstoppable forceover technology and bus ....
On a regular basis, well, yeah, but that person backs up to the cloud. The problem with that is what we found in our investigations is that most people dont do that regularly. Most people dont do that on a regular basis. They may not do it at all. You can clearly turn that feature off. At the same time we also see in the course of investigations that the very tech savvy criminal also can find out if automatic backups are occurring or if for some reason that information is being diverted in some way off of a particular device. And so we have to be able to, i think, account for that as well in the course of our investigations. And last question we have yes . I have a question from twitter. Great. From a good friend of the fbi at the aclu. Im going to paraphrase what came in here so it comes out in a Family Friendly manner. No, im just kidding. This question is effectively does the fbi use encryption on its own on classified emails ....
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2015] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption contents and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org including the impact of encrimination. This event is two hours. Youre here with pasco, the modern field guide to digital privacy. Were so happy that you could be here. Wed like to start with a few thanks, dell, the Internet Society and cspan, our friends that are bringing this to you live online. The st. Regis hotel and our friends move on to the keynote interview and then well go to a great panel with ciar rag from the department of justice. Just a quick bit on passcode. We launched in february of this year. We bring some of the biggest issues facing the internet. If you were here this morning, youll agree this is one of the ....