http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-showed-government-still-213151251.html Hillary Clinton Showed How the Government Still Doesn't Understand the Encryption Debate

"develop solutions that will both keep us safe and protect our privacy"

This is the agreed upon script for national security, encryption, commerce, education,politics,religion, since the Internet was invented and long before. But neither safety nor privacy have been satisfactorily provided during the time this script has been incessantly spoken, written, broadcast, legislated. Crypto advocates as well as those for national security have conspired to follow a script that both agree cannot be fulfilled. Edward Snowden is merely the latest to preach this impossible dream so successful, lucrative and risk-free by advocates and marketers of crypto and natsec. None of the opportunistic companies and cryptographers marching in lockstep to this script with authorities expect the dream to be realized, so they agree to keep repeating the sales and dangerless script for doomed-to-fail national security and encryption and then demand more funding and trust for better solutions. Whether doomed to fail is deliberate to assure markets, media and lecture fees could be debated, and will be debated, and is being debated. This debate fosters the notion of opposition rather than complicity. As seen in the Snowden affair, dribble non-threatening information, call for debate, pretend risk-taking in consultation with authorities. So Manning and Snowden and a few others are left hanging in the wind, in jail, in exile. The smartest and least gullible are on the run, keeping away from publicity and foolish leaking, avoiding honey pots of secure drops and ratting to law enforcement and spies, and disbelieving anyone who promotes and monetizes the script of safety and privacy. Nobody like that is here nor on any fora on crypto and natsec suffused with tattletales, fora run for that very purpose.