On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Jerry Leichter <[email protected]> wrote: > the point of the attacks on cryptography have nothing to do with *their* > accuracy. Truth and effectiveness in political debate have all too little to > do with each other. > > Remember when Microsoft used to attack Linux for being anti-capitalist? > Someone - I forget who - proposed using Microsoft marketing techniques > against them: Every time anyone who wanted to help the campaign mentioned > "the Windows operating system", they should *always* say "the deeply flawed > Windows operating system". Repeat a phrase often enough and it becomes part > of common knowledge. This is how marketing works; this is how politics works > (not that it's easy to draw a line between them any more). > > The fact is, LE *is* trying to get the government to dictate how to build the > products sold to you and me and all the liberals and all the civil > libertarians and all the NRA members and all the Trump followers and everyone > else out there. And they are trying to dictate that they be built in ways > that *hurt us as individuals*, in the name of what *they claim* is some > greater good. Stopping that isn't going to happen by cryptographers talking > to other cryptographers about what a dumb idea "golden keys" are. The most > effective way of stopping would be convincing those who are the natural > audience for the "help LE stop the bad guys" pitch to instead see the issue > the same way they see gun control (also pushed as a way to "help the LE stop > the bad guys"). > > This is politics now, hence not really appropriate for this list - though > these political decisions will have profound impacts on how we will be > allowed to deploy crypto, so *some* discussion is unavoidable. > -- Jerry
It's entirely appropriate and relavant because the crypto people and tech / code world in general are too head down at the keyboard and haven't yet figured out how stand up and win (forever), nor how to go AFK for a minute and and partner with various potential armies. There's only so much you can do with a keyboard, the rest awaits in the real world. Subject: Reaching the Sheeple, Building a Cpunk Symbiot Army https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-November/010895.html
