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It's a good question. I wonder this too. But until we can make cryptography that is criminal-proof but not government-proof, and until the government can feasi

• nemothekid 4y ago
  >It's hard to imagine any tool that only works against criminals but not against the government. Especially considering that there's a spectrum between criminal organizations and government organizations. You are missing the point; the point of Randall's comic is that most, if not all, cryptographic methods fails under the threat of physical violence. For most of us in the western world, and certainly for most of us on this forum the most likely threat of someone using violence to extract cryptographic secrets from you would be the entity that claims a monopoly on it - the government (your local mugger is not going to request you install his CA root store). Most criminals, and the majority of white collar criminals who would benefit the most from the world disabling HTTPS do not have the mechanism, infrastructure or capability to exact violence on me the same way the government can. So your implication that "because cryptography is violence resistant, we should unlock our hard drives" is very naive.