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> To be clear, this is not to assert that targeted, justified intercepts should not be possible under appropriate and realistic court supervision. Why make thi
by dasil003 13y ago
> To be clear, this is not to assert that targeted, justified intercepts should not be possible under appropriate and realistic court supervision.
Why make this disclaimer? To avoid being branded a fringe anarchist?
It seems to me that we should absolutely be building intercept-proof communication privacy to the best of our ability since A) there's no such thing as perfect security and B) anything of importance eventually comes into contact with the real world where governments have immense power and don't need backdoors to do their job.
- tootie 13y agoIt's worth noting that prior to the internet there was absolutely no way of creating intercept-proof communication. Whilst I don't want companies handing over the SSL keys any more than you do, we have only had truly secure communication protocols available to the public for the past 10 or so years of human history.
- dasil003 13y agoTrue, but then neither did governments have the capacity to record all telephone and/or telegraph communications either. The sword cuts both ways.