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I believe that we will eventually return to "good" old days, when strong encryption was outlawed. If the intelligence sector doesn't get it overturned itself, t
by RexRollman 15y ago
I believe that we will eventually return to "good" old days, when strong encryption was outlawed. If the intelligence sector doesn't get it overturned itself, then I expect that someone in Congress will probably push a bill through to do so under the guise of preventing child porn (after all, who isn't against child porn?).
Oh, and a tip of the hat to Phil Zimmermann, who created PGP twenty years ago this year.
- jrockway 15y agoNo, this won't happen. Every major corporation encrypts the fuck out of their employee's laptops, because they are legally required to do so. The ship has sailed. Crypto is a key component of the modern economy. It would be like banning US dollars because drug dealers use US dollars.
- jleader 15y agoEver tried to obtain more than 10,000 of those US dollars? Not exactly "banned", but pretty heavily restricted, from what I understand, for just about that reason.
- felipemnoa 15y agoNo, you can call your bank (in US at least) one or two days before and they will have those 10K, 20k, 50k ready for you. Whether that raises flags and FBI agents start tailing you is a different matter.
- jrockway 15y agoObvious bullshit. Consider corporate payroll; anyone making more than $120,000 a year gets a monthly paycheck for more than $10,000, and this causes no problems.
- jleader 15y agoI was referring to physical dollar bills; how many drug dealers get paid by direct deposit?