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Encryption is a necessity

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Re: Encryption is a necessity

#11

Post by userbinator »

Companies should be encouraged to aggressively strengthen the security of their products, rather than undermine that security.

On the other hand, I think they should most certainly not be encouraged to secure products against their users:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

What worries me the most about this seemingly frantic push for more encryption is that it will accelerate the proliferation and acceptance of locked-down, user-hostile devices. Security is important but so is freedom, and I feel like we've already sacrificed too much of the latter for the former...

Re: Encryption is a necessity

#12

Post by mattkrea »

aban wrote: post #7
realusername wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[EDIT: Thanks, I have one now :)]. Does anyone has an invite for Keybase by the way ? I've signed-up a while ago but the queue is probably to long. It seems a really promising service. On my case, I've just migrated my domains to use letsencrypt, even if it's just in beta, it's so so much easier compared to 100% manual previous solutions ! Even if it's not domains with a huge trafic, I feel I'm doing my part to help…

Sure, I just sent you one to the email address on your profile.

You don't have another do you? I've been waiting for my invite for over a year now. :-/

Re: Encryption is a necessity

#15

Post by fuhrysteve »

taylorwc wrote: post #13
mattkrea wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have another do you? I've been waiting for my invite for over a year now. :-/

I just sent one to the address on your profile

Any more?? I haven't been waiting a year - but I've been waiting eagerly if anyone has any!

Re: Encryption is a necessity

#17

Post by aban »

mattkrea wrote: post #12
aban wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, I just sent you one to the email address on your profile.

You don't have another do you? I've been waiting for my invite for over a year now. :-/

Sorry I just saw your reply. Glad you got one.

I still have a bunch more, if anyone else wants them.

Re: Encryption is a necessity

#18

Post by kardos »

userbinator wrote: post #11

Companies should be encouraged to aggressively strengthen the security of their products, rather than undermine that security. On the other hand, I think they should most certainly not be encouraged to secure products against their users: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html What worries me the most about this seemingly frantic push for more encryption is that it will accelerate the proliferation and a…

> accelerate the proliferation and acceptance of locked-down, user-hostile devices.

We're already there. Can you read the Windows 10 telemetry?

Re: Encryption is a necessity

#19

Post by dijit »

matwood wrote: post #6
mynewtb wrote: post #3

Well, why not massively fund Thunderbird with a focus on usability and end-to-end encryption then? :-( Or maybe invest in Signal to they can finally start to fix and improve at a remotely competitive pace?

Thunderbird works pretty well with S/MIME to encrypt/decrypt emails. It does not work as well as Mail.app on iOS/OSX, but it works.

it's

A) Not transparent

and

B) No longer supported by mozilla.[0]

[0] - http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-scraps-thunderbird-deve...!

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