Help foil the NSA by Encrypting Google Drive(syncdocs.com) |
Help foil the NSA by Encrypting Google Drive(syncdocs.com) |
The problem is that it makes it harder to use, and to share, especially on multiple devices.
Perhaps the innocent days of the early Internet are over, and we now always need to consider that Big Brother is watching.
You have always had to assume that your data is available to Big Brother.
We expected our government to uphold the law, specifically the 4th Amendment, which protects us from unlawful searches.
Here's a report from 2000 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/820758.stm)
Here's a report from 2001 (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/29/qanda.janeperro...)
Risk assessment has always been part of cryptography.