Barrett Brown on why he doesn't use encryption

01:18 <ageis> you don't use otr messaging or anything?
01:23 <BarrettBrown> I generally don't try to hide my communications these days, as I'm not often dealing with people who aren't sufficiently hidden or who have anything truly secret to tell me
01:23 <BarrettBrown> so don't have anything like OTR
01:23 <BarrettBrown> if you have something that really needs to be kept secret from anyone who might be surveilling me, I'm willing to use whatever medium you choose, though
01:24 <ageis> nah, that's a fair explanation
01:24 <ageis> in this day and age i tend to use it even for regular communications with friends
01:24 <BarrettBrown> but keep in mind that I'm under relatively harsh surveillance by the FBI at the very least, which is all I really know for sure
01:24 <ageis> right, thats why i thought you'd be using it
01:25 <BarrettBrown> normally would, but my work right now is about 100 percent revolved around spreading info that's already out
01:25 <BarrettBrown> I don't consider myself a criminal in any shape or form and never have, and refuse to "hide" from a government I see as illegitimate
01:25 <BarrettBrown> again, it's all very abstract, sort of the only satisfaction I can have as someone who's getting fucked over by this state