Re: "Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages"

Norbert Bollow:
> 
> From my perspective there is no improvement at all in that. The
> “premium content” services are not currently available for me and that
> would not change at all.
> 
> Quite on the contrary, through standardization the social pressure
> would increase to use a system with closed software from a party whom I
> do not trust. That is something that would make the situation worse.
> Depending on how much that social pressure would increase, a possible
> outcome would be that the number of users of the kind of operating
> system platform that I want to use could decrease to the point where it
> is no longer actively developed, and then it is no longer a viable
> choice even for someone who is rather uninterested in what is currently
> offered as “premium content”.
> 
> I feel threatened in regard to my continued ability to be able to use
> software which I trust.
> 
> That is why I argue so vigorously against that threat.

+1

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Saturday, 13 July 2013 11:49:52 UTC