| Here's the greater point no one is talking about. Reread Gates statements. Illegal porn was practically an aside tossed in at the last minute. His point was lies. Encryption was the enemy because it enabled lies. The difference between Gates and LEO/Politicians? Gates lacks their dishonesty. LEO & pols have a terribly long history of leveraging extreme behavior as justification for increasing LEO/Gov power+budgets, along with a corresponding loss of our civil liberties (which translates to increased Gov/LEO power). re:9/11 All of us remember how tech + new gov powers + gobs of cash were necessary to stop the terrorists (practically in our borders and ready any second to unleash more devastating attacks). Less remembered is how anti-terror Tech/Power/Cash is being used against low-level offenders (eg: Fusion Centers) And sickeningly predictable, anti-terror tech is today being deployed against people who criticize cops (eg: protests) Which is exactly what the history of LEO (Gov,etc) suggested was going to happen (eg: War On Drugs). That same history is now poking at us to realize that we can expect the same from War On Illegal Porn. At least that's something we could learn, if learning from history is something we wanted to do. |