I think it's time to stop cooking up technology solutions to political problems. It's a lazy hack and a distraction.
The counter-parties that encryption will supposedly neutralize are commercial entities doing monitoring for advertising (or other purposes) and government surveillance. Commercial entities have all sorts of ways to collect said information (ie. by compelling you to opt-in in exchange for services). The government has a long history of successfully breaching encryption when it's motivated to do so.
The solution is to leash these powerful entities with regulation. Elect Senators with the courage to curb the intelligence community -- it was done before after the excesses of the Vietnam Era.
I think it's time to stop cooking up technology solutions to political problems. It's a lazy hack and a distraction.
I very much agree with this philosophy in general, but when government and corporate interests are fighting their political battles with tech by designing software to exploit you, there is no option but to push back on multiple fronts.
The counter-parties that encryption will supposedly neutralize are commercial entities doing monitoring for advertising (or other purposes) and government surveillance. Commercial entities have all sorts of ways to collect said information (ie. by compelling you to opt-in in exchange for services). The government has a long history of successfully breaching encryption when it's motivated to do so.
The solution is to leash these powerful entities with regulation. Elect Senators with the courage to curb the intelligence community -- it was done before after the excesses of the Vietnam Era.