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Everytime there is an uproar to fight it again, so they wait and try again a year later. They aren't giving up, they are just waiting as they "only have to get

Everytime there is an uproar to fight it again, so they wait and try again a year later. They aren't giving up, they are just waiting as they "only have to get lucky once" Meanwhile those who recognize the issue instead must live by the maximum "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"

JoshTriplett 4y ago
The only way to stop having to constantly fight this issue is to manage to swing things back further back, to have backlash in the direction of "no and stop asking", or if necessary, "no, and your smoking crater will be a warning to the next person to try". We should be in a world where "I want to ban encryption" results in "Of course not, and your career in politics is now over". We should be in a world where "I want to ban encryption" results in "No, in fact here are a bunch of laws enshrining the right to encryption and privacy". We should be in a world where everyone building encryption technologies is building it in a fashion not just resistant to but actively hostile to any ability to control or backdoor it.
- petre 4y ago
  From the UN declaration of Human Rights: Article 12 "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." Banning encryption constitutes "arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence" in my view, but it should be taken to (constitutional?) court.
  - rcdwealth 4y ago
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HKH2 4y ago
maxim*
rjh29 4y ago
That's what people kept saying about DRM in our CPUs and monitors. So far it hasn't really worked though, last time I checked both Netflix and Spotify are trivially reverse engineerable and 100% quality rips are online within hours.

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Everytime there is an uproar to fight it again, so they wait and try again a year later. They aren't giving up, they are just waiting as they "only have to get

by kneebonian 4y ago

JoshTriplett 4y ago
The only way to stop having to constantly fight this issue is to manage to swing things back further back, to have backlash in the direction of "no and stop asking", or if necessary, "no, and your smoking crater will be a warning to the next person to try". We should be in a world where "I want to ban encryption" results in "Of course not, and your career in politics is now over". We should be in a world where "I want to ban encryption" results in "No, in fact here are a bunch of laws enshrining the right to encryption and privacy". We should be in a world where everyone building encryption technologies is building it in a fashion not just resistant to but actively hostile to any ability to control or backdoor it.
- petre 4y ago
  From the UN declaration of Human Rights: Article 12 "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." Banning encryption constitutes "arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence" in my view, but it should be taken to (constitutional?) court.
  - rcdwealth 4y ago
    [dead]
HKH2 4y ago
maxim*
rjh29 4y ago
That's what people kept saying about DRM in our CPUs and monitors. So far it hasn't really worked though, last time I checked both Netflix and Spotify are trivially reverse engineerable and 100% quality rips are online within hours.