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I think that the idea that "using crypto will cause the nsa to keep your data longer" is a hindrance to progress. Everyone should be using crypto and everyone s
by chacham15 13y ago
I think that the idea that "using crypto will cause the nsa to keep your data longer" is a hindrance to progress. Everyone should be using crypto and everyone should have privacy. When we begin to be afraid of what someone will do if we protect our interests, we start giving up those interests and that is not something I am prepared to do.
- teeja 13y agoMaybe the prospect of someday burning gigawatts to decipher my elliptic-curved peanut-butter-cookie recipes will alert them to what a charade they're part of. We must create boogeymen from a vacuum so that we can burn taxpayer dollars to further enrich the right people. Unlike biochemicals, encryption, storage and analysis are benevolent forms of collateral damage as they lead to increases in computing power and mathematical insights.