"Perry E. Metzger" writes: -+------------------------ | | And a personal note to you all: | | Let me again remind people that if you do not inform your elected | representatives of your displeasure with this sort of thing, | eventually you will not be in a position to inform them of your | displeasure with this sort of thing. |
Perry, While I agree with you, the public does not, so far as I can tell, find itself willing to risk insecurity for the benefit of preserving privacy, as this article in today's Boston Globe would tend to confirm. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/05/12/most_put_security_ahead_of_privacy/ Most put security ahead of privacy (By Bruce Mohl, Globe Staff) Mark Jellison, a Verizon customer in Quincy, isn't fazed that his phone company may have turned over his calling records and those of millions of others to the National Security Agency as part of an effort to thwart terrorism. <snip> --dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]