Re: Pervasive encryption: Pro and contra

Um, I see some debate on the issues breaking out in the comments.  I’m not
the chair, but if it were, I’d holler at you to have those arguments here;
I made sure that every bullet point in that doc had an unambiguous address,
so you can say in email that “C2.4 isn’t a problem because...”  My goal was
to propose a candidate structure to have the debate around, not an
alternate place to have it.


On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:

> There has been a *whole lot* of traffic on this subject.  It’s fascinating
> that the meeting of minds is so difficult, and any possibility of that
> happening is made more difficult by the discussion skewing back and forth
> across the road.
>
> To help sort things out in my own mind, I just went and read the last few
> hundred messages and attempted to curate the pervasive/mandatory encryption
> arguments, pro and contra.  It’s in a Google doc that’s open to comment by
> anyone: http://goo.gl/6yhpC1  Hm, is there a handy wiki platform
> somewhere that can stand up to the pressure?
>
> I don’t know if trying to organize the talking points is generally useful,
> but I sure found it personally useful; maybe others will too.
>
> Disclosure: I remain pretty strongly in favor of as much mandatory
> encryption as we can get, so that may have filtered my expression of the
> issues.  I've version-stamped this: 2013/11/16, and promise not to change
> it in case people comment on it.
>