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Re:You have a moral obligation to use crypto by peterwwillis on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @10:18PM (#7222316)
If encrypting our communications were a moral imperative, wouldn't someone have suggested our telephone calls or postal mail be encrypted some time in the past 40 years? We've had the capability to do so as private citizens for years, but who the hell cares? And it's not like your bank is going to start sending your bank statements in the mail with a one-time pad.

If we didn't have to think about crypto, everyone would be using it. It is just not easy to ensure the secrecy and integrity of all your data. And Joe Blow does not really care so much about his security or integrity to go out of his way to use more crypto.

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Re:You have a moral obligation to use crypto by Joeboy on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @06:14AM (#7223696)
> If encrypting our communications were a moral imperative,

> wouldn't someone have suggested our telephone calls or

> postal mail be encrypted some time in the past 40 years?

Mass surveillance of those things wasn't really a threat, in most places anyway.

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