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I agree with you. There was a really good episode of Blue Bloods about this issue. And the writers of Blue Bloods got it completely wrong. The problem is they p

I agree with you. There was a really good episode of Blue Bloods about this issue. And the writers of Blue Bloods got it completely wrong. The problem is they portrayed the pro-encryption side of the argument negatively, and didn't do it any kind of justice. In the end the Police Commissioner guilted a tech executive to lend him "an engineer" to unlock a smartphone containing sensitive data. That is how this argument is portrayed to the public. "Well if you aren't hiding anything then you have nothing to worry about!" It's funny because you can you can usually tell a non-tech-savvy person who has had their identity compromised from a non-tech-savvy person who hasn't, simply because they have a healthy dose of paranoia. I feel like if more of society were trivially hacked (and embarrassed by it) that they would take the issue more seriously. But by then it could be too late.

mindslight 7y ago
Of course they got it "wrong". The writers aren't looking to challenge their audience, but rather playing to preconceived notions of the centralizing narrative. The struggle of the good guys stopping the bad criminals. If only the good guys could have more power, they could be more effective! It would be hard to create a more robust system of government propaganda than primetime TV.
Xelbair 7y ago
>That is how this argument is portrayed to the public. "Well if you aren't hiding anything then you have nothing to worry about!" If government has nothing to hide why getting anything out of FOIA is nearly impossible?
m-p-3 7y ago
The thing is that law and public acceptable change over time so > Well if you aren't hiding anything then you have nothing to worry about! Maybe I don't need to hide anything for now because what I'm doing is considered legal now, but it might change in the future. Once the cat is out of the bag, there's no putting it back in.

mindslight 7y ago

Of course they got it "wrong". The writers aren't looking to challenge their audience, but rather playing to preconceived notions of the centralizing narrative. The struggle of the good guys stopping the bad criminals. If only the good guys could have more power, they could be more effective! It would be hard to create a more robust system of government propaganda than primetime TV.

Xelbair 7y ago

>That is how this argument is portrayed to the public. "Well if you aren't hiding anything then you have nothing to worry about!" If government has nothing to hide why getting anything out of FOIA is nearly impossible?

m-p-3 7y ago

The thing is that law and public acceptable change over time so > Well if you aren't hiding anything then you have nothing to worry about! Maybe I don't need to hide anything for now because what I'm doing is considered legal now, but it might change in the future. Once the cat is out of the bag, there's no putting it back in.