The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work

Re:The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by DennisP on Thursday December 03, 2015 @08:25PM (#10674031)

They're not entirely the same thing. For example, if you think people have a right to privacy, one way to fight for it is to write cryptographic software, so everybody who already agrees with you can protect themselves. That doesn't require you to convince anyone who disagrees.

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Re:The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by kaybe on Thursday December 03, 2015 @08:44PM (#10674077)

If you fight to win (in at least as much as keeping your freedom to encrypt), you will have to convince your government at some point. The topic won't go away and if they care strongly enough you might find yourself in your own private full-on intelligence war, and maybe in prison. At some point tech cannot help you (rubber-hose cryptography).

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Re:The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by erikpukinskis on Friday December 04, 2015 @04:12PM (#10679163)

Law is not the only moral battlefield.

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Re:The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by kaybe on Friday December 04, 2015 @07:47PM (#10680235)

Could you elaborate? I think I do not understand your point.

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Re:The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by darawk on Friday December 04, 2015 @03:29AM (#10675256)

That isn't fighting for your morality, though. That's just making crypto software.

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