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I think this misses two main arguments for increased use of end to end encryption. 1. It reduces the behavioural entropy of people who really need it (journali
by agd 11y ago
I think this misses two main arguments for increased use of end to end encryption.
1. It reduces the behavioural entropy of people who really need it (journalists, lawyers etc)
2. It makes mass surveillance much harder.
Yes, if the NSA/FBI are after you, they can access your devices directly. But ubiquitous strong encryption is still a Good Thing.
- ethbro 11y agoExactly. Imho, the true nuances of the outrage over NSA collection were never that they could do it. That was assumed. It was that they could and were doing it to (for all intents) everything. Herd encryption isn't intended to make it impossible for them to gather intelligence. It's intended to make it impossible for them to indiscriminately gather dragnet intelligence.