Stefan Reich wrote:
> "Here's an interesting issue and one that is well to debate on Slashdot. It
> is said on just about all the major news networks that there has been an
> intelligence breakdown. That the terrorists use sophisticated encryption
> measures and that our intelligence agencies are under-funded and don't have
> the ability to keep tabs on the terrorists. Question: would you be willing
> to trade your personal privacy for maybe some further measure of security
> >from terrorists? Would you grant the people running Carnivore greater rights
> into your life in order to perhaps prevent more events like this? Is the
> encryption export ban such a bad thing when stacked against 50,000 people's
> lives?"
>
> (http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/11/1842258.shtml)
Nonsense discussion from the outset.
I am you do
we are it is
he and she go
to be the or
Sixteen words, the shortest and most frequently used in plain, common English.
0 1 2 3
4 5 6 7
8 9 a b
c d e f
Sixteen numbers, which make up Base16, or hexadecimal encoding.
Any number, and word, any computer data can be expressed in any string of these.
The words above and the numbers are replaceable by each other.
Fill other words between them, and any message can be hidden - in clear sight of
bright daylight.
Even the line you read here can already contain the words "Attack, now!".
I could write this idea in my little room, without ever having been to university
learning encryption mathematics.
There is no possibility to stop
anyone from using such means of encryption and
data hiding.
And there is no way to tell whether they do.
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Here's two copies of Macchiavelli's book, from 500 years ago, about how
to become ruler of a country, and stay that.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/machiavelli-prince.html
http://members.tripod.com/EsotericTexts05/Machiavelli.ThePrince.htm
His bottom line is, be respectable, and TRY NOT TO BE HATED by others.
The whole mumblage over security measures is as valuable, long term, in
this context, as gun control is towards reducing crime.
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