On 13 June 2017 at 21:48, Nick Gale <nickg...@gmail.com> wrote: > The right to privacy is less of an issue than with the breaking of things > that ought not be broken. All it will take is one bank to go down because > their escrow keys were acquired by another sovereign state and you have the > country in lots of trouble. Attacks on a key escrow the government holds > for all keys won't be by some kid in the basement. It will be by other > countries. > > The so called "bad guys" will just build infrastructure that doesn't > adhere to such regulations. Even now its not hard to do. Whats to stop > people building their own CA's to encrypt their comms? You think that if > someone does they are going to give the keys to the govt? > > Sure they can't use facebook or twitter or other public services but they > sure as hell can plan whatever it is they want to without having anyone > eve's drop on them. Essentially the only people this sort of thing impacts > is the average joe. >
Aside from issues of privacy, this nails the point of "will it actually work worth a damn?". And the answer is no. Stupidity is stupidity, whether it's done in the name of national security or otherwise.
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