Re:More encryption means less privacy
by mike_hearn on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @01:47PM
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There are lots of examples of governments maintaining the integrity of keys over the long term. The e-Passport system is an example of that. Another would be that the NSA had the ultimate insider hack - literally a sysadmin who dumped their entire internal wikis and document stores - and yet it appears that no key material was compromised.
You can repeat "a backdoored system is no system" mantra to yourself if you like, but there are a LOT of threats that aren't governments and those are the ones people tend to care about the most.
Re:More encryption means less privacy
by aminok on Sunday August 14, 2016 @04:36PM
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Threats posed by government are much more profound than those posed by any other type of organisation, because governments have much less effective checks on their power.
You can repeat "a backdoored system is no system" mantra to yourself if you like, but there are a LOT of threats that aren't governments and those are the ones people tend to care about the most.