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The problem with strategy (2) is that the government can take action to stop it. For example, in the UK it's a criminal offence to withhold encryption keys in t
by rainforest 12y ago
The problem with strategy (2) is that the government can take action to stop it. For example, in the UK it's a criminal offence to withhold encryption keys in the face of a warrant.
David Cameron also relatively recently argued that encryption should be banned or controlled to prevent anyone hiding things from the intelligence services.
Widespread deployment of encryption would probably just result in more offensive tactics from intelligence agencies.
- middleclick 12y agoKey disclosure laws fall into this same category. It doesn't matter if you use full-disk encryption - you have to turn over the keys when asked else you face imprisonment. TrueCrypt's plausible deniability feature was really helpful; I wish dm-crypt has something like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law And this is what happened in Canada recently: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quebec-resident-alain-philippon-to-fight-charge-for-not-giving-up-phone-password-at-airport-1.2982236 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quebec-resident-al...
- gkoz 12y agoIn this context hindering the use of encryption by your own citizens seems like making every other intelligence agency's job easier.