Is it true that only hackers and criminals use encryption?
Encryption: If you've got nothing to hide, why do you need your privacy?
The answer is simple: Why do you wear clothes? Why do you have window-shades? Why do you not tell your friends, or even strangers, every single secret you have?
Because privacy actually is important. We don't go outside naked. We don't talk about our kinks in front of strangers. We don't talk about your personal feelings to random people on the street. We like to keep things private.
Privacy for the sake of privacy is very sensible and normal. Including your online communications as part of what should be private in your life is to be expected. It's actually quite strange to think a person, even a government in charge of "security", would have the expectation that they should be able to know all your secrets and invade your privacy. Being able to look at your private conversations you have with your friends should not be allowed. Sadly, it is.
But there's another more terrifying answer: With the current set of laws that the government enforces, so many things are illegal, that if you don't maintain your privacy, they could easily craft a legal case so thorough against you, that no lawyer would want to go near it.
We're watching you...
They could put together everything you say, all the websites you visit, and all the locations you've been, in such a way that you look guilty of just about any crime. You'd have to completely conform and obey, and talk only about sports and weather to remain guiltless. It'd be a nightmare dystopia.
Us real humans actually DO enjoy frisking the lines between "conformity" and "deviancy". Most of us are good people who don't ever actually cause harm upon anyone else, but with so many corrupt laws and unjust policies, it's quite hard to live an average life without breaking laws.
And that's where encryption comes in. Protect yourself. Protect your friends. Don't talk about secrets unencrypted, or you'll be breaking your friend's trust in you. If you spill secrets to a friend, but the government is listening, then you just revealed your most intimate parts of yourself or your friends to the government, or whoever else is listening.
Be safe. Use encryption for all conversations.
~Kitten
follow @heretickitten as she is an excellent author. The Steemit Crypto Challenge 4 will be released tomorrow and another article about privacy by @timsaid will follow. Don't miss it
Rent-seekng politicians will always strive to create new laws by which they can punish their enemies and reward their friends.
The stick of selective enforcement weighs heavily on their enemies, and brushes lightly over their friends,
Violating privacy rights allows them to find out who obeys their laws, and who criticizes the politicians. We have already seen politicians use anti-bullying laws to seek to punish critics.
Using encryption helps you to maintain your privacy. Good post, timsaid!
Credits for this post go to Kitten :) My post in regards to this topic comes tomorrow. Going more into detail we will discuss this topic
ah, well thanks to Kitten ;) I'll be looking forward to more on this,
yes, and almost all people use google, facebook, ... privacy became almost an illusion (for 99% off all people)
That's a good point that will be covered in tomorrow's post
i look out for it.
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This is an excellent article, and touches on some really important points. Maintaining your privacy both online and off is important for a variety of reasons. I actually just made a post here yesterday about some bad things that happened because my husband revealed too much personal information about us to someone he met online, and thought was his friend. We both take extra precautions to guard our privacy now. There's an excellent book called "How to Be Invisible," by J.J. Luna that describes in detail exactly WHY you may want to make yourself invisible to everyone but those who truly know you.
Encryption is an important tool in the digital world, especially the distributed nature of the Internet. We all use encryption, even unknowingly, to visit web pages, to purchase something online, when you swipe your credit card, and even when you talk-in-code with your friends or significant other. It is part of our digital lives. Encryption is a tool, not inherently good or bad, just a tool. How that tool is used can be judged as good/bad.