Encryption in the Balance: 2015 in Review

Re:Encryption in the Balance: 2015 in Review by imh on Saturday January 02, 2016 @07:41PM (#10828856)

I hate to write crappy comments, but my general reaction to this can be summed up with ":-("

There are terrible changes in the government that feel inevitable. Whenever these changes are beaten/voted down, we all celebrate that we've won, then just a couple years later, they are reintroduced. This seems to repeat until it passes. At this point it feels like our complete loss of privacy is inevitable, and that at once terrifies me and deeply depresses me. There's nothing that I can do to prevent this. Not in the long haul.

:-(

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Re:Encryption in the Balance: 2015 in Review by late2part on Saturday January 02, 2016 @11:48PM (#10829546)

It's not inevitable. It will happen if we let it happen.

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." J.S. Mill

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Re:Encryption in the Balance: 2015 in Review by Selfcommit on Sunday January 03, 2016 @12:50AM (#10829690)

Further - I would say it needs to happen. Not because I'm excited about the loss of privacy - but because until we lose that privacy, encryption won't become something relevant to the average person. Encryption is a solution that expects "bad actors". When government succeeds in overtaking privacy, better encryption will prevail.

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Re:Encryption in the Balance: 2015 in Review by jlgaddis on Sunday January 03, 2016 @07:36AM (#10830400)

One could argue that the (U.S.) government has already succeeded in overtaking privacy.

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