[mortov]

Because right now people have access to GPG and can send information reasonably securely to journalists.

But don't worry, a 3 [or 4] letter agency near you is working real hard on that.

The stuff about terrorists can wait as that's not quite as important as stopping you knowing about what the agency is up to. The supposed masters in charge of limiting them - government ministers - are willfully compliant in the manipulation and deceit.

[edit:spelling; I wish english was my first language.]

[tomp]

> [edit:spelling; I wish english was my first language.]

Don't. Chances are, you'd never be incentivized to learn a foreign language, which stretches your mind and broadens your culture.

[panarky]

And those of us who are native English speakers do unspeakable violence to the language with words like "incentivized".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Incentivize

[mdisraeli]

Those of us working with the UK government probably all just had to double-take then to work out which GPG you meant :P (There was a UK government security document series called GPG)