>It's somewhat amusing watching the overt rhetoric of the FBI "crypto war" when the majority of even technical people make far less of a fuss over covert exploi

>It's somewhat amusing watching the overt rhetoric of the FBI "crypto war" when the majority of even technical people make far less of a fuss over covert exploitation, which has the dual benefits of being pretty much ubiquitous and plausibly deniable. Sounds like what John Young said today on cypherpunks mailing list[0] and something I don't see the public nor the all actors involved this "crypto c̶i̶r̶c̶u̶s̶ war" shedding light on soon: "Kill metadata and other crypto-issue-overdone diversions. Metadata and other crypto-workarounds resulted from the crypto wars of the 1990s which were bragged to be won rather than faked out. The fake-out was orchestrated by some of the very same crypto warriors claiming to be against gov-controlled crypto. A way to identify them is to note who rose to prominence and wealth in crypto com-edu-org. Still at it, ratcheting up the need for ever more crypto, acknowledging the workarounds but, but, but: Let's Encrypt, HTTPS-HTS everywhere, secure drops, freedom of the press and courage foundations, Snowden talks and tweets, FISC amicus curiea, POTUS and TLA advisories, industry lobbyists, dual hats riding the crypto gravy train and more likely, the subway out of sight. The money and prestige to be gained by working all sides of the crypto phony war is, as Greenwald crows of Omidyar's $250M bribe, irresistable." [0] https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-December/011250.html https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-December/01125...