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You had James Bamford writing about phone call monitoring 40 years ago in Puzzle Palace. Nobody cared. You had Cypherpunks on the cover of Wired wearing masks
by technofiend 10y ago
You had James Bamford writing about phone call monitoring 40 years ago in Puzzle Palace. Nobody cared. You had Cypherpunks on the cover of Wired wearing masks with their PGP key IDs and saying encrypt all your emails. Nobody cared. You had the EFF compromising with the Clinton I administration on Clipper and key escrow. Nobody cared.
People of a certain age have discovered the value in ephemeral services after Facebook and other services with long memories have proven to potentially cache embarrassing posts for future employers but there's no cyber utopia with anonymous communication empowered by a vetted web of trust because nobody cares. Just snapchats you hope the recipient doesn't capture.
- schoen 10y ago> You had the EFF compromising with the Clinton I administration on Clipper and key escrow. Nobody cared. Are you sure you're not thinking of CALEA?
- technofiend 10y agoI just remember at the time being shocked that the EFF had endorsed a compromise but no longer remember the details. I'll have to google for it and see if I can find it now.
- schoen 10y agoThere was a compromise around CALEA which was one of the precipitating factors in EFF's split into CDT and EFF. As an EFF member during the early Crypto Wars and a staff member since just before September 11, I'd be surprised to hear about a compromise on Clipper; I haven't heard any of the 1990s-era employees mention such a thing.
- rakoo 10y agoSurvivor bias. For every correct prediction you had 100 wrong predictions, and I'd venture it's the same today.