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Why even permit people to have secrets of any kind? The real "problem" is not encryption, but people keeping secrets. Encryption is just one way of keeping a se
by hughw 9y ago
Why even permit people to have secrets of any kind? The real "problem" is not encryption, but people keeping secrets. Encryption is just one way of keeping a secret. With a law banning private secrets, they could throw anyone in jail for not answering a question.
If the government has a back door to read all your messages, they are saying they don't want you to have any secrets at all -- but electronic messages are the only ones they know how to pry open.
- dualogy 9y ago> Why even permit people to have secrets of any kind? The real "problem" is [...] people keeping secrets You might be on to something! To lead the way to a secret-free world, they might wanna start by dissolving MI5, MI6, etc..
- kwhitefoot 9y ago> hey could throw anyone in jail for not answering a question. if the question is "What is the key to this encrypted disk?", then they can already do that which surely already means that the keeping of secrets is illegal whenever a policeman says it is.
- danieltillett 9y agoOnce upon a time society functioned that way - a strong belief in God acts in practice to make secrets impossible. I am not sure that a society without any secrets would be a bad thing - it certainly would be very different.