| Leaving aside the tangent in your comment (we were talking about governments having access to your encrypted data, not about Free Software)... > Furthermore, if they did give your content to the Government because of a national security letter how is that abuse of power? Should they not comply with the law? I fully expect that they would have little choice in doing so if they received a warrant from a government with jurisdiction over them. (Though I'd also be unsurprised if they did so even if asked without a warrant.) I don't want them to have anything to give if asked. > I just think that the privacy absolutism that everyone keeps bringing up isn't reasonable. Different people value their privacy differently. If you don't value it as much, feel free to trade it for things you consider more valuable. Don't assume everyone else wants to make the same trade you do, though. I'm not advocating absolutism. You should be able to have as much or as little privacy as you want, which may even mean different amounts of privacy in different contexts. > Power is a boot on your neck. This is more of an inconvenience. The government having full access to the contents of your encrypted drive is an "inconvenience"? I'd hate to know what you consider an abuse of privacy, then. The whole point of encryption is to keep unauthorized people from having access to your data. |