Catastrophe, you mean like thousands of radicalized people meeting securely in secret online to disrupt an objectively legitimate thing?
I would like more widespread penetration of critical thinking (such as teaching people to pattern-match on the most common fallacious techniques used by cults, conspiracy theorists, propagandists, modern snake-oil salesmen, and other ne'er-do-wells) before we deploy some "mass security recommendation" that would enable people to more comfortably plan things like firebombing vaccination centers based on secretly-exchanged nonsense. I mean, isn't that why "the authorities" (assuming they are good actors, which is of course an unknown) are nervous about pervasive, easily-accessible security?
Fortunately, it seems like most bad actors are idiots who have zero qualms about insecurely broadcasting their thoughts on social media leading up to their committing of despicable acts. But your efforts might make such "precognitive noise" "secure by default".
(In principle, I agree with you. This Martin Fowler piece on privacy, I consider seminal: https://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html I'm just saying that no single technology seems to be a universally-satisfying panacea.)
Privacy for everyone includes privacy for people you don't like. Having literally everyone know about ways to have secure and private communications would actually be a good thing.
Do the bad guys use these technologies? Yes, but so what? It's like saying that we shouldn't educate people about knives because some guy can use it to kill people.
This whole fear of educating people about privacy tools because some criminals will use it is so tired and irrational. Criminals do it already and have done it for a long time. It's inevitable that more people will use them in the future, including the "bad guys". How about we just accelerate it and instead think of why people commit crimes in the first place? Nah, too hard, let's try to ban math instead.
> Fortunately, it seems like most bad actors are idiots who have zero qualms about insecurely broadcasting their thoughts on social media leading up to their committing of despicable acts.
At some point they'll stop doing it and become more aware of their OPSEC. Or they do it intentionally because they want to get caught.
Catastrophe, you mean like thousands of radicalized people meeting securely in secret online to disrupt an objectively legitimate thing?
I would like more widespread penetration of critical thinking (such as teaching people to pattern-match on the most common fallacious techniques used by cults, conspiracy theorists, propagandists, modern snake-oil salesmen, and other ne'er-do-wells) before we deploy some "mass security recommendation" that would enable people to more comfortably plan things like firebombing vaccination centers based on secretly-exchanged nonsense. I mean, isn't that why "the authorities" (assuming they are good actors, which is of course an unknown) are nervous about pervasive, easily-accessible security?
Fortunately, it seems like most bad actors are idiots who have zero qualms about insecurely broadcasting their thoughts on social media leading up to their committing of despicable acts. But your efforts might make such "precognitive noise" "secure by default".
(In principle, I agree with you. This Martin Fowler piece on privacy, I consider seminal: https://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html I'm just saying that no single technology seems to be a universally-satisfying panacea.)