This is exactly why tech/internet companies should have been spending the last year educating people about why encryption is important and just how much of thei

This is exactly why tech/internet companies should have been spending the last year educating people about why encryption is important and just how much of their lives relies on crypto. The FBI has been running their own propaganda campaign, but when James Comey talks about the supposed "need" for backdoors, the common response by the people that understand crypto is to talk about how stupid Comey's suggestion was, sometimes with suggestions that he must not understand how crypto works. Meanwhile, the intended audience doesn't hear how backdoors aren't possible, and now have to unlearn the lesson that is "bad". edit: A suggestion on how to educate people about encryption: remember why[1] Philip Zimmermann wrote pgp - to provide an envelope for network communication. [1] https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html