That's very interesting. After reading your messages and the owni news today
about cryptography and network spying (www.owni.fr, it's in french), I'm
convinced. I think that you're right SirGrant. It's not about secrecy but
privacy. We can live in a "Rechtsstaat", trust the laws of our countries, and
want some privacy. We can even think that these laws and our justice will
fight for this privacy. It's like our home, we don't want cameras in it. We
don't need a door which looks like the door of a bank safe, but we still put
a bolt. These comparisons are a little bit shaky, but this distinction
between privacy and secrecy is very important. We can even see it in the
evolution of the government reactions against cryptography. At the beginning,
it was illegal and considered like military materials, and today some
governments recommend for example their firms to teach their employees how to
encrypt emails, etc.
But I don't know a lot about all that stuff and I'm asking myself two
questions.
1) If we use cryptography for emails or even surfing in this kind of
"Rechtstaat" for example in Europe, like with the freedombox, don't we put on
us a mark a suspicion ? Don't we draw authorities attention to us and our
banal activities (like you said, sending email to our relatives) ?
It's like we want to hide something (it's an argument of the Google's CEO)
and we don't trust our laws, and even anybody. After that they will perhaps
want to know more seriously what we're doing (even if we have a crypted
Internet).
2) When we use for example, google to research some informations, don't they
know our interests and save it ? Or could we use google with some security
guarantees ?
