More encryption means less privacy
I think this point of view isn&#x27;t just wrong it&#x27;s <i>actively harmful</i>.<p>It completely ignores what happened - which is that various government agencies skirted around constitutional law, subverted public discussion of the matter [0] and have still not been brought into adequate compliance (Since it&#x27;s incredibly hard to demonstrate standing and not have the case squashed [1]).<p>And after all this the author is saying the problem is that the users aren&#x27;t part of the political process? I would say until powers and programs employed by government agencies are brought into accountability (let&#x27;s not forget the CIA monitoring the computers of it&#x27;s own oversight committee [2]) and a transparent debate is allowed to take place, there is precisely nothing better to do and <i>encryption everywhere</i> is precisely the correct populist and democratic way to fight it.<p>&gt;Just this past week Kazakhstan announced that a &quot;state root certificate&quot; would have to be installed on all computers wanting to use SSL&#x2F;TLS&#x2F;HTTPS out of the country.<p>Yes backwards nations like Kazakhstan might be implementing &quot;state root certificates&quot; but this is just clearly demonstrative that the power is on the side of the users in this debate. Isn&#x27;t having these kinds of crazy measures on ballot in Western countries precisely forcing the political process the lack of which the author of this paper is criticizing?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;andygreenberg&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;watch-top-u-s-intelligence-officials-repeatedly-deny-nsa-spying-on-americans-over-the-last-year-videos&#x2F;#521129b121d3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;andygreenberg&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;watch-t...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;cases&#x2F;jewel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;cases&#x2F;jewel</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;congress-intelligence-community-whos-overseeing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;congress-intelligence-co...</a>