On 2020-10-16 09:55, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
it seems his position is that "all tech that gets created, gets used -more- by the fascist MIC regime dominating us all" and the obvious conclusion from this apparently correct observation is "so why the hell would you create more, or promote, any such tech?"
This argument (if I've paraphrased Juan correctly) is quite compelling - it's not obviously wrong.
If, however it was right, we would not see the government acting to backdoor mainstream crypto (Skype, telegraph, etc) and we would not see obvious NSA shills on cryptography standards committees. The NSA would not have backdoored the elliptic curve on the NSA standard. If they went to the trouble of backdooring that curve, then obviously using Ristretto25519 is going to cause them at least some inconvenience. Snowden tells a tale of giving an agent a doctored usb thumbdrive, which powned whatever computer it was plugged into. Which implies that the computer was not pre powned.