[louisphilippe]

From the article:

"Encryption is one of many ways that an adversary, whether that's a criminal, a terrorist, a rogue nation, one of the many ways that they might use to hide their activities," former NSA Deputy Director Chris Inglis, told CNNMoney.

I recall Paul Graham's Submarine article...http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Did the NSA give CNN this story? If so, why? In order to retroactively justify its own attempts to route around encryption? In order to help generate support for some upcoming policy proposal or action?

Also for discussion -- how would you feel if you were the founder of Telegram, and this article is actually true? What would you do? I personally have had some ideas for secure email or chat services. But I really do not like the idea that it would be used by the worst-of-the-worst. I wonder if there is any way to reconcile the two goals of private and secure communication with avoiding being used as a tool of criminals.

[mgalka]

At one time I was looking into starting a secure messaging business myself. Had I done so and then found myself in this situation, I would probably shut the business down. Ethically, that would probably be the wrong thing to do, since it's implicitly a vote in favor of NSA spying, which I am against. But the thought that I might be facilitating mass murder would be too much. Don't think I coukd sleep at night with that hanging over me.