You can not sacrifice privacy to get security, that’s like tearing down the house to build a fence. Privacy is how security looks like from within those walls, security is how privacy looks like from outside those walls, they are two sides of that same wall.

The (US) legal system uses MD5 hashes to detect unique documents. It’s been broken since 2008. Apparently hardly anyone in law or legal technology knows this.

“Let’s hope that the entertainment industry realizes that digital copy protection is a losing game here, and starts trying to make money by embracing the characteristics of digital technology instead of fighting against them.”