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Comment Crypto rights (Score 1) 357

Do you foresee the "right to encrypt" surviving as an essential tool in the right to privacy? With recent expansions in domestic surveillance capabilities and requests by the DoJ to expand those powers even further, some are predicting that regulations regarding the use of encryption are inevitable (e.g. a return of the Clipper chip). Do you believe that the legitmate uses for encrypting personal data and communication will outweigh the possibility that criminals will also use encryption now that increased fear of terrorism has given that much more weight to the old "four horsemen" (terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and money launderers)?

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