| You are right saying geeks are emotional like everybody else. The answers you receive to your comment are a proof of this, and I, for one, felt a strong emotional urge to respond :) Yet I don't know anybody personnally who has been killed by a crane or a forklift and still want those to only be in the hands of trained professionals. Some tools demultiply the potential for a single human to do damage so much that I don't want any individual to casually be able to yield them. You cannot have an encryption accident in the same way you can have a car accident. It's ok to use signal drunk, it's not more dangerous than drunk irc. It's ok tu use https if you are uneducated or in rage, it's not more dangerous than http. You have a can fully encrypted veracrypt file in the hand of children. Nobody is going to kill you with a pgp key. Your encrypted hard drive has no more storage risk than the regular one, even in a plane or in a facility with fire hazard. All in all, encryption works by making it hard to do damages to you. It's passive. Weapons work by promising than attempting to do damages to you will result in damages to them as well. It's an important nuance. That being said, I go to the shooting range myself. I like it. It's fun, and it's a knowledge I don't want an elite to be the only owner of. But I want my ability to do so to be heavily supervised. Not so with encryption. |