On 8/1/23 16:12, Nick Hilliard wrote:
The contents of rfc1984 aged well. One potential addition: the current
round of proposals include suggestions to fillet various classes of
encryption clients, for example personal messaging systems. This is
slightly different to the topics discussed in rfc1984, but in the
current round of encryption angst, no less of a problem.
More generally: the parties who seek omniscience will continue to do so
for the indefinite future, even across (for example) changes in
political leadership. They'll keep trying to restate their arguments
in the hope that people will become more tolerant of surveillance, more
sympathetic to their claims, or will forget how governments and
companies abuse their power and the harms that result. And an old
document can always be dismissed as anachronistic. So it will continue
to be necessary to restate the case for robust privacy protection,
indefinitely. If we stop doing that, the enemies of privacy will win.
Keith
