> >The Post article said that Mr. Blosser, while he was busy doing the NT Prime
> >stuff, also "posted encrypted info on the Net" or something thereof. I find
> >this hard to believe. Is that accurate?
>
Contacting Primenet to post results constitutes "posting encrypted
info on the Net". (The message block isn't in plain text!) So does
lots of other perfectly legitimate activity.
> b) Mr. Blosser has himself posted here that this was completely untrue. I'm
> quite inclined to take him at face value.
Me too.
> In case you don't get it, between this and many other cases, the FBI and other
> police authorities are completely clueless when it comes to technology.
Specifically, they see anything they can't understand as a threat ...
> All
> their posturing over encryption technologies and digital telephony should have
> us ALL scared to death. See www.eff.org, www.cdt.org for some background on
> these two issues and what the FBI has been trying to foist upon the American
> public in the name of 'National Security'....
>
... and not just the American people - they want those of us who
happen to live outside "the civilised world" (read, "the USA") to
have even less control of our own privacy and security than
they're willing to grant to the Great American Public...
Regards
Brian Beesley
