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Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption By 7 Years (theintercept.com)
An anonymous reader cites an article on The Intercept: The director of national intelligence on Monday blamed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for advancing the development of user-friendly, widely available strong encryption. "As a result of the Snowden revelations, the onset of commercial encryption has accelerated by seven years," James Clapper said. The shortened timeline has had "a profound effect on our ability to collect, particularly against terrorists," he said. When pressed by The Intercept to explain his figure, Clapper said it came from the National Security Agency. "The projected growth maturation and installation of commercially available encryption -- what they had forecasted for seven years ahead, three years ago, was accelerated to now, because of the revelation of the leaks." Asked if that was a good thing, leading to better protection for American consumers from the arms race of hackers constantly trying to penetrate software worldwide, Clapper answered no. "From our standpoint, it's not ⦠it's not a good thing," he said."Of all the things I've been accused of," Snowden said, "this is the one of which I am most proud."
Boohooo, we actually have to work now, that's not fair!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
it saddens me how many times i have argued this point with my parents. earliest memory of it was in grade 8, most recent was about 5 months ago when i tried to warn them about installing a cloud based video system into their house. At least i got to use the line: "what if there is somebody snooping on the non encrypted feed to your house and you guys are fucking in the living room". Sadly being former flower children they got turned on and promptly told me they had something important to attend to and made me leave.
-Pizentios
Hydra.