On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:42 PM, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Had a quick flick. Arguments based on a presumption of "perfect > end-to-end encryption" are utterly useless as they are counterfactual. > Anything one likes can follow from a false assumption like that.
The article also makes the mistake of thinking that the NSA eavesdropping on us is really the big failure mode. Whether or not you think the NSA should eavesdrop on us, there are plenty of actors who should not, but who can, if we don't have more encryption. The NSA is just the bellwether. And the argument that we don't _really_ need privacy makes a lot of sense until you start asking yourself who you want to have copies of your credit card, who you want to know that you are away from your home this week, who you want to have photos of you in indiscreet poses, which gamergate trolls you want to have access to your private information, etc. Come on, Dan, don't troll us! _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
