Encryption Is Not a Crime
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Encryption Is Not a Crime
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#3Not a crime, but somehow our dear EU overloads try every year or so to make it a crime in any way possible (eg. chat control).
If we want to play in a world with full transparency, let's start with the politicians!
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#4There's an abstract argument template that I've noticed floating around. It goes like this:
1. There's a thing T in the world, and that thing has negative outcomes X, Y, Z, and positive outcomes A, B, C.
2. Some people believe that Y and Z are so bad, that they want to partly compromise C to diminish them.
3. However that will never work! And they'll definitely also take B if we let them mess with C.
4. Besides, C is so important, that we should accept Y and Z to have it.
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#5It’s honestly annoying how often experts speak up about this, and still nothing changes. We’re stuck in the same cycle—fear gets in the way, and in the end, it’s our privacy and security that suffer. If anything, this should be a sign to invest in stronger encryption and better law enforcement tactics that don’t mess with the tools keeping us safe online.
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#6> Ignoring experts doesn't make facts disappear
And yet it seems like every last politician without literally a single exception thinks that they it does work that way.
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#7Not a crime, but somehow our dear EU overloads try every year or so to make it a crime in any way possible (eg. chat control). If we want to play in a world with full transparency, let's start with the politicians!
The same people who want to make encryption a crime (like Trump 45[0]) are using signal to discuss sensitive information without an audit trail. It's absolutely rules for thee.
0 - https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/trump-officials-we...
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#8Not a crime, but somehow our dear EU overloads try every year or so to make it a crime in any way possible (eg. chat control). If we want to play in a world with full transparency, let's start with the politicians!
And like always they claim its to protect our children... Who could possibly argue against protecting children?
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#9There's an abstract argument template that I've noticed floating around. It goes like this: 1. There's a thing T in the world, and that thing has negative outcomes X, Y, Z, and positive outcomes A, B, C. 2. Some people believe that Y and Z are so bad, that they want to partly compromise C to diminish them. 3. However that will never work! And they'll definitely also take B if we let them mess with C. 4. Besides, C is…
My favorite version of it is "Let's ban air because terrorists breathe".
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#10Not a crime, but somehow our dear EU overloads try every year or so to make it a crime in any way possible (eg. chat control). If we want to play in a world with full transparency, let's start with the politicians!
And also apply it equally to ecommerce and homebanking.
Lets see how happy the voters are when they have to start walking to their Bank again every week, can't order their latest temu toxic waste product anymore and their GDP drops in half.