Perry replied to Eric: > > The claim is that automobiles or telephones do not evicerate the ability of > > law enforcement to effectively do their job, while the use of strong > > encryption and other electronic sundry do. Therefore, it is argued that > > cars and certain phones are ok, while strong encryption is not. > > This claim is, however, wrong. > > First, lets look at the question of automobiles. Automobiles certainly <skip> I think Perry makes a good case for Automobiles. But why ignore the airplanes? This crime would be impossible if there were no civilian airplanes allowed. If necessary, the airforce could provide flight services. Of course, passangers must be chained, as standard precaution; this is only a minor inconvinience, well worth the improved security, as the crew will only be to happy to help passangers relieve themselves, with reasonable if not perfect privacy. Another advantage of preventing air traffic (and preferably also cars, as Perry already argued), would be to make contact between terrorists via face to face meeting more difficult. By forcing people to communicate electronically, and without (legal) encryption, we can substantially reduce the percentage of successful attacks (there are some critics who may claim it may increase the number of terrorists, but we can always ignore these). One last suggestion: the special aircrafts as well as the chains will be decorated with American heritage, to show America will not give in so easily, e.g. `Welcome to America, Home of the Brave`. I must however disagree with Perry's ending comments: > There is also the question of skill. Even if you could find every copy > of PGP on earth and erase it, if Ossama bin Laden could get his people > trained as pilots, what would be so hard about getting them copies of > Bruce Schneier's book? Or do you plan to ban it and all the others? What do you mean `ban it`? Definitely, US forces should _eliminate_ all these dangerous weapons, by searching libraries worldwide. We expect every freedom-loving nation to help, but it may be that we'll need to use force with some countries. There is always the danger of some copies made, but that's pretty easy to prevent; copy and press machines have been abused by terrorists for centuries and it is high time to control their use. We still have the technology to do so; let's use it now, then we can get rid of these dangerous computer science departments. Best, Amir Herzberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
