Mastering the Internet

[ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk]

Quoting Richard Clayton <richard@highwayman.com>:

[snip]

> Of course none of this parsing of content works when people encrypt
> their traffic (a topic entirely absent from the consultation) -- but
> they seem to be assuming that since traffic is not yet (n-years later)
> mainly encrypted, then it won't be in the future.
>
> However the countermeasures to P2P traffic shaping (BitTorrent clients
> now encrypt out-of-the-box), the continued growth of CPU power (making
> the cycles to do the encryption less and less an issue) and the concerns
> expressed around Phormlike systems; may mean that we're rather closer to
> a tipping point...

The number of people running systems that are vulnerable to exploits  
that are well publicised, and that have been patched for months, where  
the consequences for being vulnerable include giving your data to  
criminal gangs suggests to me that the tipping point is a lot further  
away than it should be.

How many p2p / Usenet users know about the benefits or drawbacks of  
encrypted connections?