Encryption is like a lock, it has keys. Its like saying "All of you should provide a print of all your keys used in your home to the police, else how would we know you are not hiding a body in there?"
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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Encryption should be no more a crime than locking your house or storing your valuables in a safe.
And backdoored encryption is just as bad as unencrypted, maybe worse, since it lulls you into a false sense of security.
"After Salt Typhoon's hacking campaign targeting US telecom networks came to light last fall, then FBI director Christopher Wray described the phone company breaches as China's “most significant cyber-espionage campaign in history.” The intrusions, which in some cases exploited the wiretap mechanisms built into telecoms for law enforcement use, prompted CISA and FBI officials to go so far as to recommend that Americans use end-to-end encrypted communication apps like Signal and WhatsApp to avoid leaving their texts and calls vulnerable to China's real-time spying."
Mathematically worse.
It's kind of integral to the function of enterprise?
The entire financial system literally relies on encryption
Lots of really critical stuff needs encryption, it's absolutely insane to try and ban it.
to try to* ban it
People lock their doors; everyone understands.
wHaT aRe ThEy HiDiNg!!??!1?
In China, basically every enterprise uses a VPN to get uncensored internet when needed.
Too bad the paper proclamation that is the constitution means nothing today
Encryption is not just not a crime, it's a republican virtue, those arguments usually used about guns, they are even better applicable to encryption. Encryption is actually a civil duty, because of herd immunity being damaged by people not using encryption. That public institutes' erosion we are seeing in the last decades - it's because the technological progress made the need for encryption to blow up, not accompanied with sufficient public perception. That erosion is a result of bad people having gotten orders of magnitude more information about everyone to plan their actions.
Who is the removed who would that encryption is a crime?
A fairly large portion of governments globally
Encryption is only a crime if done by a poor or not the government. So long as it’s got the rich people backing it, it’s not even in the same league.
When will you people see that this world doesn’t have universal rules. It has rules for the poor. And those for the rich.
There's a mass without roofs, a prison to fill
A country soul that reads post not bills
A strike, and a line of cops outside of the mill.
There is a right to obey, and the right to kill.
(c) Rage against the Machine
Yet.
They'll just make it a crime and pretend you were wrong all along. We're not playing by moral rules anymore.
They’ll send you to the Gulag here even if you didn’t commit a crime.
It's the Cypherpunk's Manifesto all over again.
Encryption is not a crime *unless you’re doing it to someone else’s data to extort them for bitcoins
Legalize it
I believe in some jurisdictions it is in some circumstances a crime, yes.
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