Timeline for How can I explain to non-techie friends that "cryptography is good"?
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| May 19, 2016 at 14:50 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | It's not a minor detail that one can be (and is) completely ignored or redefined at the government's convenience and the other cannot be. It's a very important, very fundamental difference. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 9:43 | comment | added | Tom | Short and memorable, or correct on every detail - pick one. :-) | |
| May 18, 2016 at 17:44 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | But they do, because they can. Proper cryptography does not have this drawback of being able to be ignored or redefined at the convenience of those power. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 9:34 | comment | added | Tom | It's not supposed to ignore the Bill of Rights, either. | |
| May 17, 2016 at 14:08 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | That's a really unfair comparison. The government can't just ignore cryptography when it's inconvenient, or engage in Orwellian redefinitions with math, after all. | |
| May 17, 2016 at 9:23 | history | answered | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |