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If you go down that route, convincing the public to use and standardizing backdoored and broken cryptography would also count as social engineering. The commun
by jwtadvice 10y ago
If you go down that route, convincing the public to use and standardizing backdoored and broken cryptography would also count as social engineering.
The communications are decrypted.
This is done through a combination of backdoored cryptography, state of the art cryptanalysis, and mass social engineering (propaganda).
Namely, you're not proposing something that's mutually exclusive to decryption of data.
- EugeneOZ 10y agoI wrote what I wanted to write, enough with sophisms.
- jwtadvice 10y agoI understand that you wrote what you wanted to write. Unfortunately what you wrote was FUD in the worst case and misinformed in the best. Anyway I think we both are at a point where we understand the other's point of view. Thank you for the conversation. I believe we both hope a lot of HN folks will stumble over it over the next few days. :)
- EugeneOZ 10y agoAnd again you are trying to offend me even when i'm trying to stay calm in this conversation. And it's all just because I recommended to use encryption, lol. Fuck off and bye.
- jwtadvice 10y agoEugene. We agree about the need to use encryption. We disagree about it's limitations, and how to use it effectively. Unfortunately this isn't a theoretical debate. Journalists, for example, around the world are being killed at increasing rates by governments, with this year reaching an all time high. State surveillance is an issue of tremendous importance for civil rights and personal freedoms. Our conversation and recommendations have to be sober and give candid, informed advice. I think you absolutely have the right motivations: to encourage people to protect themselves from state coercion and violence.