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What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy involving innocent kids and a bombing / school shooting / kidnapping / pedop
by GHFigs 12y ago
What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy involving innocent kids and a bombing / school shooting / kidnapping / pedophile?
Pedophiles (or more specifically: child pornographers) routinely use strong cryptography and effectively nobody cares.
- pdpi 12y agoThe point the OP is making is that nobody cares because nobody has been told to care. All it takes is a well-timed news article on how some Bad Guy used Irresponsible Unbreakable Crypto to change that.
- GHFigs 12y agoDo you believe that your beliefs are dictated by single "well-timed news articles" directed by "the powers that be"?
- thawkins 12y agoThey can be, thats what the whole concept of memes is all about. It happens.
- pdpi 12y agoDictated? No. Profoundly influenced? Yes, yes I do. I think that I'm more than capable of detecting most forms of propaganda, but I hold no illusions as to my ability to judge _everything_ that comes my way in a fully informed manner. I can look back and see cases where too little information, bad information, or even just a misunderstanding lead me to believe in things that just weren't true. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
- Ar-Curunir 12y agoIt's not about the technically educated minority (though even they are vulnerable to falsehoods perpetrated via propaganda), but the vast majority of people who aren't aware of how computer security works and believe that the government is always working only in their interests.