“The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.”
Eric Schmidt, Patron of NSA Back Door Into Google
Phi Beta Iota: Apart from the obvious, that only open source encryption can be scrutinized by millions of minds, this also kills Microsoft, whose software is always 1.3 times what the hardware can comfortably support. Companies that are software pigs now, without encryption, will be comatose when they try to add encyrption to their kludge.
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