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Comment author: Plasmon 19 January 2015 07:26:34AM 12 points [-]

Recently, there has been talk of outlawing or greatly limiting encryption in Britain. Many people hypothesize that this is a deliberate attempt at shifting the overton window, in order to get a more reasonable sounding but still quite extreme law passed.

For anyone who would want to shift the overton window in the other direction, is there a position that is more extreme than "we should encrypt everything all the time" ?

Comment author: fubarobfusco 19 January 2015 08:46:12AM 4 points [-]

To be a bit more specific than "we should encrypt everything all the time":

Mandatory full-disk encryption on all computer systems sold, by analogy to mandatory seat belts in cars — it used to be an optional extra, but in the modern world it's unsafe to operate without it.