Quote from: Anon136 on June 25, 2013, 11:21:20 PM

Quote from: whydifficult on June 25, 2013, 12:08:39 PM

Here is a good read for why you shouldn't use crypto to try to hide for the / a government:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/24/1218418/-Don-t-Even-THINK-of-Using-Encryption-Software-to-Escape-NSA-Scrutiny

bull shit. they retain everyones data indefinitely anyway regardless of whether the person is using encryption. so they use your data as an input in their research to learn how to break the encryption? big deal if you dont encrypt they just read it with out even having to attempt to break anything.

this sounds like a really bad bluff to me. they know they wont be able to break encryption for some time so they are trying to scare people into not using it.

Quote from: el_Tico on June 25, 2013, 10:19:03 PM

This argument is synonymous to the argument that if everyone leaves their front door open, a burglar is less likely to choose your house. I agree with pythonista that we must have wide adoption of crypto.

Cryptography may not guarantee privacy but it protects work/messages from entities that can make allegations that aren't true.

Two quotes say it all, the article linked is just euh .... aiming at mind boggling stupidity and/or ignorance.