no encryption even worse? (Re: Groklaw shuts down)

[Rich Jones]

I think the point that they're making is that one communicates differently
when one knows the line is tapped. Better self censorship than blabbering
with delusions of security. This isn't a philosophy which I personally
agree with, but I believe this was their intention.


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Adam Back <adam at cypherspace.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:32:00PM -0400, John Young wrote:
>
>> Bluntly, anybody who peddles security is a cheat.
>> Those withdraw it are worse.
>>
>
> I was thinking something like that about the silent circle shutdown.  It
> seems to me their problem case was the mail in (they would be encrypting
> that to the user PGP key or equivalent, after sender optional use of SSL to
> deliver it to them).  So would not a more sensible change be to disable
> mail in?  So then only silent circle users could encrypt messages to each
> other.  Even that would add pressure to other users to also get a silent
> circle account and so be a business advantage.
>
> Puzzlingly spun "to protect our users privacy we removed their encryption
> feature" - so they'll probably send it plaintext instead, great.
>
> Adam
>



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