In the analog world, everyone recognizes the absurdity of effectively outlawing privacy or the notion that the government should be empowered to conduct surveillance on everyone in order to catch a few bad apples. Why do so many Americans totally lose that understanding when the conversation turns to the digital world? It is not radical to believe Americans should be free to talk to their friends, lovers, family members, and associates in private, without anyone listening. And it is no more radical to suggest that they ought to be able to do so via email. With a warrant, criminals can be targeted. The rest of us should be left alone. But the NSA and its defenders are succeeding in redefining longstanding expectations about privacy as if theyre extremist positions that threaten America. It isnt so. What Ladar Levison and his associates at Silent Circle are trying to build is email that affords a degree of privacy many Americans assumed they already had.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:42:38 +0000
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