The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.
Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.
Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.
The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is known as 'going dark.'
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