Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone | Popular Science

Source: Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone | Popular Science

The Signal developer on why the FBI and governments can’t be trusted

I have the somewhat unpopular opinion that it should be possible to break the law. … We can only desire based on what we know. It is our present experience of what we are and are not able to do that largely determines our sense for what is possible.

The FBI wants us to believe that strong encryption in consumer products will enable terrorists, but they already have access to encryption. It’s the rest of us that don’t.