To deter scrutiny, encryption & privacy must become ubiquitous
This article points to the reason that TOR, VPN, PGP and financial transaction mixers should be ubiquitous. That is, businesses, consumers, and enterprise should encrypt and anonymize *any* communication, storage or transaction for which the parties do not require a provable receipt and a public audit trail. Just as with a bedroom discussion, or a drink purchased with cash at the local pub, privacy and anonymity should be enabled by default. There should be no chance of interception—even by forensic investigators—without the consent of at least one party to the original transaction.
I will gladly go head to head with any pundit that feels that privacy technology enables terrorism. Far from it. Treating private communications, storage and transactions as an open book is far more crippling to national interests.
Philip Raymond
CRYPSA, Co-Chair
Cryptocurrency Standards Assocation
Biting the hand that feeds IT
