How is it that the government that tells us that they need a back door into encryption because the tool that we use to safeguard our privacy can also be used by "bad guys" for evil purposes, completely forgets this argument when it comes to guns? "Yeah, bad guys use guns for bad things but there's nothing we can do." The right to bear arms (interpretation up to debate) and the right to privacy are both supposedly guaranteed in the constitution (amendments 2 and 4).
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Jump to PostGood question. Any time folk ask me about email privacy I use what happened to Lavabit as a primer on well, many subtopics as to email security and encryption.
To top it off, if you do develop a new encryption your government may hound you for these backdoors. Need an …
Jump to PostIf I use Lavabit as an example, it appears that the current USA government is successfully suppressing secure email in the USA. You have to be elsewhere to avoid US interference in your secure email company. And then that's not true either. Since your system might rely on the internet …
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