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While that's a stop-gap measure I heartily support, in the long run maybe we should all try and change the US legal as well as political system to make that kin
by mafribe 13y ago
While that's a stop-gap measure I heartily support, in the long run maybe we should all try and change the US legal as well as political system to make that kind of thing unnecessary.
- kbenson 13y agoI think the point is that it's not stop-gap in that process, it's step one. If the opponents of the change you propose have access to your private data, they have an unfair advantage.
- mafribe 13y agoRather than encrypting 'our' data, we could also strive to make 'their' data as accessible to us as our's is to them. Aka transparency.
- kbenson 13y agoI think that's a failing strategy. You can only trust that 'their' data is open as much as you trust 'them'. This is the robustness principle (for API design/use ) applied. "Be lenient in what you accept from others, stringent in what you emit." As applied to this case, it's "Be lenient in what you you expect reality is, but stringent in what you attempt to shift reality to."