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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by Jayschwa on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:54PM (#6303160)
Pedophiles and terrorists use high-strength crypto to transmit dangerous and illegal information. There's no reason normal citizens need high-strength crypto. Besides, if it came down to it, do you really think your crypto would stand a chance against the government's three letter agencies? You can still protect yourself from passive script kiddies with ROT13.
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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by sukuriant on Friday August 30, 2013 @02:11PM (#6303279)
For those that didn't catch it, Jay is using a mock version of the anti-gun argument in his response here. I'm pretty sure his views aren't that at all (but a part of me is terrified to think that someone will use his response as a defense for crypto to not be in normal users' hands, taking what he said completely out of context)
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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by EthanHeilman on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:40PM (#6303767)
Wait until they start using words like "assault crypto" or military grade-crypto. Why does any citizen need the crypto that is used in warfare? They aren't in combat, why do they need more than 54-bit keys? Who are they so worried about anyway?
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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by hga on Friday August 30, 2013 @04:11PM (#6303927)
"There is no need in American civilian life for these weapons of war." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine)

The next time they come for the gun owners (well, that would be yesterday: http://www.pagunblog.com/2013/08/29/obama-issues-executive-o...) you might want to consider that this set of rights is indivisible.

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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by pampa on Friday August 30, 2013 @05:23PM (#6304310)
Or better yet: Crypto of mass destruction!
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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by zaphar on Friday August 30, 2013 @02:15PM (#6303301) 

    There's no reason normal citizens need high-strength crypto.
You seem to think that normal citizens have no need to hide things. I deem this assumption to be false. Witness "normal" citizens in various foreign countries with opprosive regimes whose very lives require they hide things.
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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by dwaltrip on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:55PM (#6303838)
Poe's law FTW
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