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By this logic, if there was one section of the gov't that had extremely advanced crypto cracking capabilities, then keeping crypto legal for normal citizens sho
by crazy1van 11y ago
By this logic, if there was one section of the gov't that had extremely advanced crypto cracking capabilities, then keeping crypto legal for normal citizens should also be a "moot point".
However, citizens would probably still want to keep their data private from all kinds of other eavesdroppers just like they want guns to protect themselves from threats less capable than the military.
- exolymph 11y agoI would agree with this if guns were mostly used to protect people from threats less capable than the military. In practice, they're not: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/ http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thre...