[zingplex]

Is there any reason that legislative and technical measures are mutually exclusive?

[jedberg]

No, but as a community we have limited resources, and it makes more sense to focus on the technical solution than the legislative, which is usually a long slow process and never gets done what you want after all the lobbyists get their hands in it.

[smichel17]

I think this is misguided/shortsighted. Politics can always trump technology -- see the rounds of anti-encryption bills currently making the rounds.

Consider what technical success looks like. How many nice things can't we have, if we need to worry about how they will be abused for fingerprinting?

Better to succeed politically and fail technically than the other way around.

[rhizome]

Then again as the saying goes, you can't use technology to fix a people problem.

[novok]

Also intelligence agencies are going to ignore whatever legislation you create.

[smichel17]

That doesn't sound like full political success.