On 08/24/2016 02:23 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
If I ask "how should we permit privacy tools to be circumvented?" and someone's answer is "Pressure them. A wrench comes to mind," well... I've received an answer to how the person believes governments should be permitted to obtain secrets. It's not a very good one.
How about we stop considering 'the government' to be an adversary in a class by itself? From a technical cryptographers' point of view, there is a user that wants to keep his stored or communicated data secret, and the adversary that wants to break the secrecy. It is perfectly normal for a technical professional to offer his or her services to one or the other, depending on either monetary consideration or on some ethical, political, or philosophical criteria. But attempts to be a servant of two masters have resulted in either catastrophe or a farce so often that not much can be said about that has been said or written already. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
