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Short of banning math, how exactly can you prevent people from using strong encryption? There are plenty of things that are technically possible but illegal.
by forgottenpass 11y ago
Short of banning math, how exactly can you prevent people from using strong encryption?
There are plenty of things that are technically possible but illegal. Most things that are illegal are physically possible to perform if I so wished. The efficacy of law is never 100%, how often people break it is often based on the ease to do so, the ease to not get caught, the scale of punishment, personal morals, interpersonal pressure, and societal standards.
- dasil003 11y agoI think the distinction is that cryptography is much closer to thought-crime than to any physical crime. It's on the continuum of banning speaking in private. There are a lot of ways to slice it, but it boils down to privacy being illegal per se. It would be unconscionable by the majority if the implications were clearly understood, but because it's "technology" somehow the fearmongers are able to spin it (as they do so many things) as a national security issue.
- taejo 11y agoIt's not illegal to know how to make nuclear weapons, but a law against making them is not unreasonable.