with apple and Google the default encryption announcing for phones, we have reached a pivotal landmark. It used to be that encryption was a novelty for geeks. Now, the big players begin to take responsibility for the privacy of the less informed.
At the dawn of the mass breakthrough of the Internet, activists of privacy already had written the tools necessary for bulk encryption. They dreamed - and defense -. A world where encrypt your communications and data would be the default value for the authorities at least have to spend considerable work to read our private data and correspondence
Instead, they were charged with violating arms export laws. Phil Zimmermann, who wrote PGP in 1991 (still during standard for email encryption), was actually billed to make it too easy for the world not to be bugged. He won against these charges, and against future restrictions, very clever footwork civil liberties -. Post encryption sources in book form, and allowing the freedom to print override arms export regulations
Thus, strong encryption has been given to the masses, and with it the possibility of privacy. (Some countries were even worse than the United States right now. France, for example, prohibits the use of encryption at all if you were a private citizen.)
The full text of "Why j 'wrote PGP "Phil Zimmermann worth reading. You can see that this is clearly not a piece of software for commercial purposes, but considered an essential tool for preserving the balance of the individual against the government. consider that it was written in 1991!
it's personal. it's private. and it's nobody's business other than your own. […] Maybe you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why do not you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a police search warrant of your home? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean that you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut? Citizens law-abiding need to encrypt their emails? […] The government has a record that does not trust that they will never inspire abuse our civil liberties. […] Therefore, using PGP is good for preserving democracy.
But alas, there was an encryption to the masses, but there would be no mass movement crypto. Correspondence people would not encrypted by default. PGP was just too heavy to use when sending mail, compared to just take off. And still, unfortunately, as shown by XKCD
There would be no "default encrypted." Convenience has won out.
However, last year, privacy has become a selling point. Or rather, he was always a point to a relatively low level of sales, but last year he became a major point of sale. And last week, Apple joined the private pro-life camp, immediately followed by an announcement from Google: iPhone will be encrypted by default in the future. So will Android phones. Nothing to light, nothing to learn
This is mark change :. For the first time in history, technology products producers take real responsibility for user privacy in security-illiterate, rather than simply reject encryption as "new technology for . geeks "
Some in law enforcement are furious no wonder Act has not kept up with technology.. Today, a phone is the most private thing a person owns - much more private than, say, a newspaper was The newspaper has an extensive legal protection a phone was no Police were able to rummage through it at will, even without a search warrant application of.... the law has confused their ability to violate privacy on a large scale for a law to do so. There is no such thing.
After all, the police do not have the keys to your home, even if they have a search warrant. There is no reason why they should have keys to your phone, either. Or your other correspondence and data. That's the difference between a police state and the rule of law -. In the latter, the police not get all they do to, and for good reason
Privacy remains your own responsibility. But it is very encouraging to see that others are now ready to help a little.
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