This encryption row is just stupid. I hate that governments are using the Paris tragedy to push the anti-encryption agenda further. Was it not reported yesterday that the attackers used unencrypted regular text messages and had no encryption on their phones?
Obviously if they can't stop attacks when the terrorists communicate using unencrypted methods the answer is to ban encryption.
[b]BULLSHIT[/b], how are you going to prevent someone just using an alternative like a browser-based messenger, IRC, encrypted email etc!
All on your phone even.
You can't prevent the use of encryption! Not in the day and age of the internet and open source software.
So let's drop the horseshit reasons, this is not because of "terrorists" or "protect the kids" or "economic/state safety",
it is just for bulk data collection.
FFS how and why do we have to deal with such shit over and over again?
Lets just make encryption illegal, how hard can it be?
Oh whats that? Companies need it for safe communication?
Banks need it to make safe transactions?
Now lets imagine for a moment what happens if you successfully make Encryption illegal.
Wireless networks would basically cease existing. You can't browse anything without fearing that your accounts wouldn't get compromised.
The concept of E-Banking would cease to exist, we would have to manually walk into a bank to make transactions because everything else is not safe anymore.
E-Commerce would cease existing for the same reasons. All your passwords and credit card info would be transferred completely unsecured over the network and anyone who can intercept your traffic can access them easily.
If a country made encryption illegal, most companies would haul ass and take their business with them. Companies can't afford their Company and Brand be marked as insecure because of some countries retarded legislations.
Now that all can't happen because Encryption will not go away, and it never will, even if Politicans make it into some gigantic crime with a death sentence to Develop encryption Software.
The chinese people have been working on stopping encryption for citizens within their country for the longest time, developing even the most sophisticated technologies to fight and detect it, and they still failed.
Encryption is and has been practiced for thousands of years, they cannot ban or stop such a fundamental idea. Of they force one method to use backdoors, another will be invented immediately and nobody will use the now compromised encryption method.
I'll let it pass, so long as the government complies with the ban as well.
However we all know they'll never do that, so fuck them and this brain-dead idea.
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