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This is a fair point and one I hear often, but can you be sure that for as long as you live, you will never have a reason to fear the global adversary? I trust

• exelius 12y ago
  I said this above, but I'll say it again here: if your government has identified you as a target, there's very little you can do but hide and hope you can find another government willing to protect you. That said, crypto is useful in avoiding their gaze in the first place. For this, vulnerable crypto is better than nothing: assuming the vulnerable crypto requires a non-trivial and non-repeatable process to break, it's unlikely that even a state actor is going to bother breaking it for the entire population.
  • bad_user 12y ago
    Or you know, move to a country functioning under the rule of law. I don't get this mentality, but regardless, if you're paranoid then encrypt/decrypt your messages on a computer that's never connected to the Internet. There, problem solved.
  • alsetmusic 12y ago
    > That said, crypto is useful in avoiding their gaze in the first place. I'm not entirely sure that I agree. I've long thought that using encryption above and beyond what the average person employs would be a great way to appear on 'their' radar. I don't have the need, so I'm happy not trying to find out. That said, if everyone had strong encryption enabled by default, no one would stand out, which I support.