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The message I sent to my girlfriend last night. In 30 years, when I am running for president, that email/text/signal message might come back to haunt me should anyone be able to decrypt the archived/encrypted copies held by state agencies.

Anything that is private today is private for a reason. That reason doesn't automatically disappear over time.

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This is indistinguishable from hoarder logic. Such things straight up don't matter on the scale of decades. The US DOJ has a policy of automatic declassification after 25 years.

You do realize that because of #metoo, claims and evidence of people's actions 30, 40 years ago are being judged in the court of public opinion, if not in actual courts?

I don't think you've been paying attention to the news.

Also the US government isn't a great example. JFK was assassinated in 1963 and all records surrounding that still haven't been released.

The idea that people don't care about secrets across the span of decades is utterly wrong.

How does encryption impact #metoo? The person waking the accusation would have a decrypted version of the message and even if they didn't they could accuse without proof.

>> hoarder logic.

And the US intelligence community is the greatest data hoarder on the planet, rivaled only perhaps by the combined forces of facebook/google.

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