Technopeasant’s Comments

• Jul 15th, 2015 @ 9:45am

  ENCRYPT IT ALL AUTOMATICALLY (as technopeasant)

  on UK Confuses Gullible Reporter Into Believing It Changed Its Position On Encryption
  Its only a matter if time before the slow-minded Neo-Luddites realize our information is either to be used for surveillance or for secure communications. To either one-way encrypt everything including cell phones or stop deluding ourselves and encrypt nothing. It’s plain to all that the latter is untenable yet leaders on both side of the Atlantic still pine for a backdoor into everything.
  
  Those who say "Encryption is bunk, I've got nothing to hide" are forgetting that in some countries it would be impossible to live their lives as openly as they live them now. When dissidents are the only people using encryption then the gov't can easily identify who the dissidents are. Whereas if everyone encrypted then everyone is safe from targeted surveillance. Terrorists and criminals can create their own encryption. Does anyone think they would be stupid enough to leave a backdoor in it?
• Jul 2nd, 2015 @ 4:50pm

  Going Dark?

  on As FBI Fearmongers About 'Going Dark' Because Of Encryption, Actual Wiretaps Almost Never Run Into Encryption
  Do we as a culture and society want secure communications or should everything be open to surveillance?
  
  Everything including cell phones should be encrypted.