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You clearly haven't felt a 5$ wrench on your body. Giving up your secrets under torture isn't a character flaw, it's what will happen to 99.99% of people under
by louwrentius 2y ago
You clearly haven't felt a 5$ wrench on your body. Giving up your secrets under torture isn't a character flaw, it's what will happen to 99.99% of people under torture.
I can't help you if you don't believe that this is true.
And I hope you understand that 5$ wrench is a euphemism for what would 'really' happen.
All this to say that no, technology does not triumph over politics and policy.
- throwaway28409 2y agoTechnology very much does. It's the flesh that has a hard time triumphing over force. To counteract this, you can also engineer a system that can resist it through e.g. split secrets on multiple people located in different jurisdictions.
- louwrentius 2y agoIf you split a secret over two people, first, we use the 5$ wrench on one of you to identify the other and the rest is easy. If the second person is somewhere else in a different jurisdiction, how are you going to communicate with each other to get the two halves of the secret together to encrypt/decrypt messages? It's an unworkable situation. As I see it, you create a fantasy situation that would not work if you just want to communicate with people in a secure way. No amount of technology or encryption is going to work, especially in the real practical world.