Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where Cypherpunks Fail 342
scubacuda writes "Clay Shirky has an interesting take on encryption: 'The RIAA is succeeding where the Cypherpunks failed, convincing users to trade a broad but penetrable privacy for unbreakable anonymity under their personal control. In contrast to the Cypherpunks "eat your peas" approach, touting encryption as a first-order service users should work to embrace, encryption is now becoming a background feature of collaborative workspaces. Because encryption is becoming something that must run in the background, there is now an incentive to make its adoption as easy and transparent to the user as possible. It's too early to say how widely casual encryption use will spread, but it isn't too early to see that the shift is both profound and irreversible.'"
Shirky, Clay Shirky - who the hell is he? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Most poorly written slashdot comment...ever. (Score:4, Funny)
Wait for about three days and Slashdot should have a sufficent ammount of dupes to make it much more clear =P
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
Especially dihydrogen monoxide.
Re:Here's a link to the article... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
When people use encryption to hurt other people
You mean like when I throw my copy of Applied Cryptography at people's heads?
it's irreversible .... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
We've gotta ban that stuff, all the kids are gonna start using it, and then we'll never get them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5 doses today...
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
"Now you see that Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb."
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:3, Funny)
You mean like when I throw my copy of Applied Cryptography at people's heads?
Or force them to read it! :)
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:3, Funny)
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> We've gotta ban that stuff, all the kids are gonna start using it, and then we'll never get them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5 doses today...
You think you're far gone? I'm cutting my DHMO with caffeine!
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:2, Funny)
>> gonna start using it, and then we'll never get
>> them to stop. It's addictive... I've had like 5
>> doses today...
> You think you're far gone? I'm cutting my DHMO
with caffeine!
I find that when I dilute mine with malt whisky, I can manage with very little DHMO. Still, it's hard to cut back.
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, me too! But I think I've found a safe way of ingesting it - I mix it with hops and yeast, allow it to ferment in a large vat, and drink the resulting liquid! You can hardly even tell it's mostly dihydrogen monoxide! We must amend the constitution to ban straight dihydrogen monoxide, and allow only these 'brewed' concotions!
Re:Cypherpunk is a stupid name (Score:3, Funny)