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> Republicans are consistently in favor of trading liberty for temporary, limited security if it's not their firearms, speech, or press That's a pretty big "if
by ythn 10y ago
> Republicans are consistently in favor of trading liberty for temporary, limited security if it's not their firearms, speech, or press
That's a pretty big "if". Trading guns, speech, and press in exchange for security seems like a much bigger deal than trading internet privacy for security.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIt's the digital versions of 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments. They want the physical but not digital versions despite the ideology behind one justifying the other. Might even be able to add the 2nd Amendment here on the self-defense angle. It takes crypto, privacy, and endpoint protection technologies to stop hackers and online criminals effectively. The conservatives, esp military, classified high-assurance security as "munitions" since they disrupt their spy operations. They remained classified as "munitions" after the crypto wars. And, yet, we really need information security to stop all kinds of daily threats instead of them trying to ban it to hope they spot rare threats [they often fail to spot].