ティージェーグレェ on Nostr: I've been thinking a lot about Poul-Henning Kamp's recent ACM post but haven't had ...
I've been thinking a lot about Poul-Henning Kamp (nprofile…35nk)'s recent ACM post but haven't had time to formalize a well thought out response.
I sincerely disagree that judges are comparable to "super users" even if they may have some elevated privileges, they're at best like a lackey in an Active Directory who can reset user passphrases and maybe do a little bit more.
Moreover, it seems to presume that "rule of law" is the apogee to which we can or should be abiding, and maybe because I live in the USA where carceral slavery still exists and > 90% of inmates never even had a jury trial but were railroaded into taking "plea" deals? I can't, in good conscience, be at peace with thinking that judges can or should be the be all or end all.
But, in the USA at least, judge's are not superusers. The POTUS for example, can and does issue pardons.
If it were a chess board, maybe a judge is like a knight? Definitely not a superuser.
Moreover, if you're talking code (and we are, since cryptography isn't being done by hand by most when it comes to programmatic systems) then a developer IMHO, transcends such paradigms, just as a game maker isn't locked into a game of chess, they can define an entirely new game.
But last night I watched The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Persian: دانهی انجیر معابد) and again, I think that since that harrowing tale focuses on someone (ab)using judicial powers, that leaving decisions about cryptography up to courts, which are demonstrably corrupt in many jurisdictions is simply a recipe for disaster, like leaving sanctioned back doors for warrant-less wiretapping (e.g. CALEA, PATRIOT Act, etc.) already are.
So, those are some perfunctory perspectives of mine in lieu of a more well formed response.
I sincerely disagree that judges are comparable to "super users" even if they may have some elevated privileges, they're at best like a lackey in an Active Directory who can reset user passphrases and maybe do a little bit more.
Moreover, it seems to presume that "rule of law" is the apogee to which we can or should be abiding, and maybe because I live in the USA where carceral slavery still exists and > 90% of inmates never even had a jury trial but were railroaded into taking "plea" deals? I can't, in good conscience, be at peace with thinking that judges can or should be the be all or end all.
But, in the USA at least, judge's are not superusers. The POTUS for example, can and does issue pardons.
If it were a chess board, maybe a judge is like a knight? Definitely not a superuser.
Moreover, if you're talking code (and we are, since cryptography isn't being done by hand by most when it comes to programmatic systems) then a developer IMHO, transcends such paradigms, just as a game maker isn't locked into a game of chess, they can define an entirely new game.
But last night I watched The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Persian: دانهی انجیر معابد) and again, I think that since that harrowing tale focuses on someone (ab)using judicial powers, that leaving decisions about cryptography up to courts, which are demonstrably corrupt in many jurisdictions is simply a recipe for disaster, like leaving sanctioned back doors for warrant-less wiretapping (e.g. CALEA, PATRIOT Act, etc.) already are.
So, those are some perfunctory perspectives of mine in lieu of a more well formed response.