On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Joshua Marpet <joshua.marpet@guardedrisk.com> wrote:

I'm possibly being naive, but I don't see encryption (past hashing) as needed. tell me where I'm wrong?

Encryption _options_ are definitely *required*. You don't want to turn it on, fine, don't. Some will ship that way. Some other user does, fine, they will. Some will ship that way. And if people are that dense as to their need and use case, consider all the millions of everyday completely legal non journo, innocent, camera users who do stuff like... use it as a photocopier / scanner / fax for their bank docs etc take pics / vids of their families / vacations / drunk aunt donna their contacts and message streams their bedroom escapades whatever ... and are even just slightly aware of privacy, or even if not who would simply just freak out and think about it for years if something as simple as lose / stolen their camera / sdcard / phone. For people to sit here and argue that strong crypto *options* aren't useful... these people need to [have their heads] be examined.