On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 05:13:04AM +0200, Steven Schear wrote:
AG Barr, Cypherpunks disagree. We generally only endorse open source, e2e, encryption for p2p communications with no societal or government say so. We
No, no "generally" about it - instead "absolutely, unequivocally, without hesitation, and in respect of our individual and collective fundamental human rights." (I heard that from some anon somewhere...)
countenance no provision for legal access. Secure, even covert, communications is a right which need only be perfected between the the communicating parties.
Indeed. It is our fundamental right to communicate privately. Freedom has a price.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 9:25 PM John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks at the Lawful Access Summit
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-...
"It is also said that the Government is seeking a secretive 'backdoor' to everyone's communications and data. That is false. We are seeking a front door.
The heart of the matter is this: Do the security advantages of warrant-proof encryption offered to the individual outweigh the risk posed to the public by that same technology? This is not a decision for the companies to make by themselves. It is a decision for society to make.
We think our tech sector has the ingenuity to develop effective ways to provide secure encryption while also providing secure legal access."