[Alupis]

> the issue isn't simply what criminals encrypt today, but the fact that everything they do will be encrypted in 15 years

Everything everyone does will be encrypted in 15 years -- and that's a good thing. It makes it harder for the bad guys to be, well, bad.

Identity theft happens to far more Americans every year than the number that have been involved in a terrorist attack since the founding of our nation.[1] Backdooring/weakening/banning encryption will literally make stealing people's identities far easier. We want to make the government's job marginally easier to spy on everyone at any time, but we're ignoring the major side-effects of doing just that.

[1] http://www.techjuice.pk/a-data-scientist-explains-odds-of-dy...

[tptacek]

I'm confused as to why you keep bringing terrorism up. I haven't brought it up once. I am not especially concerned with terrorism, and I'm not especially concerned about identity theft --- at least, not to the point where I think we need to address it with regulation on consumer devices.