Re: [perpass] Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP

Hugo Connery <hmco@env.dtu.dk> Sat, 30 January 2016 18:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP
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Hi,

Thanks Dave Crocker for posting this.  It is useful to know
who is running the standard anti-crypto arguments, and when.

"You stand out like a sore thumb and they (archive it forever,
focus on you more, ...)" goes with "only the 4 horsemen of the
infopocalypse use encryption" as one of the standard arguments.

Regards,  Hugo Connery

On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 08:51 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP
> It lights you up like a Vegas casino, says compsci boffin
> 
> By Iain Thomson
> Jan 27 2016
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/27/nsa_loves_it_when_you_use_pgp/>
> 
> Although the cops and Feds wont stop banging on and on about encryption 
> – the spies have a different take on the use of crypto.
> 
<snip standard anti-crypto argument>