Crypto Beguilement

John Young jya@pipeline.com
Sun Feb 21 14:03:02 PST 2016


Coms eagerly post-Snowden promising crypto does not mean they
have stopped helping gov-com secret spying by other means, au contraire.

Crypto protects only a few of many means gov-coms have to spy on public,
so should not divert from those, nor from 88% Snowden docs withheld.

Govs may concede crypto public protection to assure other means remain
effective. Promoting public crypto as a cloak appears to be the campaign
underway, now as in the 1990s, so beguiling to crypto advocates to claim
a win (for the industry-org-edu to continue doing openly and secretly what
it does best).




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