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You have to trust the government to have a middle ground. It has been shown again and again that we cannot trust them. Even if we trust one government, it does
by junto 11y ago
You have to trust the government to have a middle ground. It has been shown again and again that we cannot trust them.
Even if we trust one government, it doesn't mean you can trust the next one.
If the USG force the US tech companies to provide a backdoor, then the technology is out there in order for non-US tech companies to pick up where they have left off.
It is a battle the USG cannot and should not win.
Trust the maths. Thank you Snowden for showing us the light.
- mike_hearn 11y agoBingo. Obama, Clinton and the rest keep asking for Silicon Valley to find some workable compromise and getting frustrated at the "absolutism". But they don't have enough self insight to see that they're guilty of the exact same thing. In a world where governments were transparent and government employees were robustly held to account for transgressions of clearly written laws, I doubt many in the Valley would be putting so much effort into e2e encryption. It'd be like the world pre-Snowden, or the telcos, where companies just complied with warrants and orders and didn't see any big problem with that. The problem is the Snowden affair showed that governments are utterly incapable of handling the power they temporarily obtained via subterfuge, utterly uninterested in holding people like Clapper to account, and generally don't seem to care about whether the people trust them or not. Standoffs like this are the inevitable end result. If there was trust, there'd be a lot of technical solutions. Like just not employing E2E crypto to start with. SSL would be enough.