Encryption is a necessity
<i>Companies should be encouraged to aggressively strengthen the security of their products, rather than undermine that security.</i><p>On the other hand, I think they should most certainly not be encouraged to secure products <i>against</i> their users:<p><a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html</a><p>What worries me the most about this seemingly frantic push for more encryption is that it will accelerate the proliferation and acceptance of locked-down, user-hostile devices. Security is important but so is freedom, and I feel like we've already sacrificed too much of the latter for the former...