On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Encryption everywhere all the time? No, thank you. > > Better said, and at effective length, by David Golumbia > > Opt-Out Citizenship: End-to-End Encryption and > Constitutional Governance > http://www.uncomputing.org/?p=272
In addition to what others have said -- this does feel like a trolling of perpass -- I think Mike Masnick summed up a useful perspective on this from an article on FBI Director Comey's rather bizarre testimony yesterday where he asked for US legislation mandating backdoors. In short, just because we are mediating more of our lives through networked devices does not mean the government should be able to to access those flows, and it doesn't take away the responsibility to do good old police work. ---- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150325/17430330432/fbi-quietly-removes-recommendation-to-encrypt-your-phone-as-fbi-director-warns-how-encryption-will-lead-to-tears.shtml .... Not surprisingly, Comey pulls out the trifecta of FUD in trying to explain why it needs to spy on everyone: pedophiles, kidnappers and drug dealers: “Tech execs say privacy should be the paramount virtue,” Comey continued, “When I hear that I close my eyes and say try to image what the world looks like where pedophiles can’t be seen, kidnapper can’t be seen, drug dealers can’t be seen.” Except we know exactly what that looks like -- because that's the world we've basically always lived with. And yet, law enforcement folks like the FBI and various police departments were able to use basic detective work to track down criminals. ---- The thinking from articles like the one Dan sent can naturally be extended to demanding government access to what are effectively our thoughts (the last bastion of freedom in a Democracy, I'd think) once we have computational cognitive support systems (which is not nearly as sci-fi as you might think. best, Joe -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Chief Technologist Center for Democracy & Technology 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 Washington DC 20006-4011 (p) 202-407-8825 (f) 202-637-0968 [email protected] PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key fingerprint: 3CA2 8D7B 9F6D DBD3 4B10 1607 5F86 6987 40A9 A871 _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
