Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
by Zak on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:35PM
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It's easy for people to lose sight of this with all the bad news we're seeing in 2020, but the present is the safest time in history when zoomed out to a scale of decades. The decline in violence since the 1900s to today is essentially global and scales from bar fights to wars.
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Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
by pilsetnieks on Sunday November 08, 2020 @07:49PM
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Is it safer than 2015?
Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
by Zak on Sunday November 08, 2020 @08:40PM
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2020 may not be safer than 2015, but 2010-2020 is safer than 2000-2010. You might be able to find a recent 10 year period that beats the exact past 10 years by a slim margin.
On any scale between a human lifespan and the whole of human history, now is a pretty safe time to be alive.
Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
by keithnz on Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:14PM
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Easy to lose sight that whatever safety we have is because we are actively trying to make it safe. We are at a point of development where if it wasn't safe, it would be the polar opposite and be the most unsafe time in history, everything happens on a global scale. What levers we need to maintain safety as technology moves forward is a tough thing to work out. Mucking with encryption doesn't seem like a good way to go though.