How the Government Is Waging Crypto War 2.0!!!!!

We live in a world of strong cryptography and there's nothing the United States government or any other government can possibly do to change that fact."

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/encryption-debate-the-end-of-end-to-end?trk_source=homepage-lede


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[8 Points] MDMangel:

Is vice supposed to be our enemy here on the DNM's? They put out some very informative articles, but I've been told by fellow marketeers that they are bad for us. I just want to know if we are supposed to hate them or not. Reasons please.


[4 Points] sapiophile:

Nice, this is a decent write-up of some of the fascinating history of the original Crypto Wars, with some good supplemental links. One part that they didn't mention, which is maybe the coolest bit, is that when printed source code was ruled to be protected as free speech (but crypto code was still a non-exportable munition), volunteers literally printed out the PGP source into bound paper books and shipped them overseas, where other folks scanned and OCR'd them and then built completely legal copies of PGP that way. It was a lovely "fuck you" to the fascist dickbags, and the origin of PGPi (for international).

Cypherpunks win. Cypherpunks always win. But it's still important to fight.


[2 Points] free-agent:

The government has already lost the war, they are just attempting to keep up the charade for the sake of propaganda. Vice is just an extension of the government to pump out propaganda pieces.


[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Our governments were so preoccupied with PCs that smartphones slipped through the net and got strong, automatic point-to-point encryption.

They won on PCs, no modern consumer-level encryption programs have been released that they can't routinely read. That's why there are many people still using a program which was only "pretty good" 25 years ago.

I've noticed that many marketplaces are making PGP mandatory for vendors, even if we won't be using it because we insist on something modern which does it's intended job.

I'm in the uncomfortable position of being told 15 years ago by somebody in GCHQ that PGP has been compromised, but I'm in an industry which seems to be trying to make it some kind of standard. If I say anything, everybody hates me rather than thanks me because they don't want to think.

I'm crazy for not trusting 25 year-old computer programs that I used to use in a government job, which then banned us from using them because "we get the keys at the same time the user does".

OK, bring on the hate, PGP POPSEC boys. The reason you haven't got busted isn't PGP. Its because not many marketplaces get busted, and your shipping details get deleted immediately by the marketplace,


[2 Points] Daseetmane:

This thread needs more BAHAHAHAHAHA's!


[2 Points] None:

Just throw money at it and laugh hysterically until you get mad enough to smash it to pieces. Murica! Fuck yea!


[1 Points] Uaaff:

uses vice as his source