-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Let me see if I understand this statement correctly: this group is working > toward a world in which we encrypt our communications, and when someone > discusses what that world might look like, you claim it's "counterfactual"? > That's not a reasonable argument. > Ted claims that the author argues that there is no need for a right to > privacy. I didn't read that in the article at all, but rather that the > Constitution must be taken as a whole: the same document that protects our > rights also provides various balancing tests to protect the rights of others. The author's point is that the state, with proper warrants, should be able to conduct searches for evidence of crimes. While this is a reasonable argument, it does not follow that people should not have the right to protect their communications. For example, there is no mandate anywhere that people should keep a copy of their private letters in some kind of archive, so that they could later be found when the police asks for it. And there is definitely no expectation that all our private communications should be copied and archived by the state. And I am pretty sure that there was no such expectation among the authors of the US constitution and Bill of Rights. - -- Christian Huitema -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (MingW32) Comment: Using gpg4o v3.4.103.5490 - http://www.gpg4o.com/ Charset: utf-8 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVFiydAAoJELba05IUOHVQ2q4H/i0VxlhAxXgvGFEiIiNmVUT/ 9e3Ny+nmN/MJjM02PitbJoQkG+IarEgF6Dd+93fTXcH+sGtNdo5Z1UWr/MCCIuQ0 5ZJ9XeZWnuWfKHXA4OoKHwJQ+SITYv3CSo69r0h87OuESKk50fy2495ioCcOPyDU nqAMEVRTSKMh6MLBB8OOnLwmudWNp4W76/sGEg0JOtLpQbqXNuQgk9p2yBkZ9YKb Xu+Czovq3fKfLn2wSzKQ1KH+Qe1mkYT+km0mOs+5x+r3GyD9Ff7B/ghP8faDtm68 AcngF6bKppCHcRH0D0YxbBRFhNT0wCyzyvTh9kHJbm97UcSzMYsOu7FUR4WVLXg= =Llp/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
