Why do I need encryption? I have nothing to hide!

[APX808]

Why do I need encryption, I have nothing to hide?

You're a normal guy, you have nothing to hide why should you use encryption?

Well, today you THINK you have nothing to hide.

Snowden leaked documents prove that the NSA can store your communications metadata/content for 15 years, 10 online and 5 offline.
Maybe today being a patriot or a gun owner isn't so bad, yes people think you're kind of crazy, but whatever...

But let's suppose the next president cares about constitution and civil rights even less than the current one and decides that your
political beliefs, religion or sexual preference is a danger to society and decides that people like you should be actively prosecuted, incarcerated
or maybe summarily executed?

You never know... And besides that, NSA can't read and catalog your messages and they absolutely hate it!

[rah45]

Don't worry, I'm definitely doing this when I get the time to learn how! Your lessons are #1 in my to-do queue!

[pkveazey]

Hmmmmm….. Well, today you may not have anything that you wish to keep secret, but tomorrow you might and then you're screwed if you don't have a way to hide your messages. I have reverse SCRAMBLE capabilities on some of my radios but that is waaaay too easy to figure out. I would suggest using one of the Digital modes like PSK. With PSK you can send a written message in a few seconds that just sounds like a heterodyne that most listeners would ignore. Slow scan TV has a very recognizable sound and so does RTTY. I would avoid those because if the signal was recorded it could be deciphered in a few seconds. By the time the listener got around to PSK, the info would probably be too old to be useful.