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Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support by saraid216 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:42PM (#7097736)
> Never confuse NSA revelation means we must implement things so secure that we can't even tell Bob is Bob. We can't have 100% anonymity and we can't enforce that. The world needs interaction. The ability to choose is the right direction and I hope companies will start to realize that we don't live in the 80s anymore.

I want to quote this for emphasis.

One of the huge mistakes that drives our current despair is the unconscious ideal of a world where we aren't significantly interacting except through anonymous transactions. This isn't tenable. More importantly, this isn't human. Privacy is less about having security and more about convincing other people to avert their eyes. That's why the fault is on the NSA, not on, say, messaging protocols. Privacy is not sneaking into someone else's home. The burden of maintaining privacy is on the person who could violate it.

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Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support by twobits on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:29PM (#7098106)
"We can't have 100% anonymity and we can't enforce that."

We can and should have pseudonymity.

"That's why the fault is on the NSA [..] The burden of maintaining privacy is on the person who could violate it."

Then we should abolish the police too. Criminals will just feel bad knowing they are at fault. Who is to blame, is irrelevant to how you address a problem.

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Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support by saraid216 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @04:16PM (#7098447)
> We can and should have pseudonymity.

We already do. We've always had pseudonymity.

> Then we should abolish the police too. Criminals will just feel bad knowing they are at fault. Who is to blame, is irrelevant to how you address a problem.

Don't forget journalists, whose entire purpose is breaking boundaries created by privacy.

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Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support by StandardFuture on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:17PM (#7098012)
>The burden of maintaining privacy is on the person who could violate it.

I want to quote this for emphasis. ;)

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