re encryption: another reason Government doesn't like it is that it opens
the possibility for a tax free global black market
(Tim May, crypto anarchy, digital money, anonymous networks, digital
pseudonames, black markets, collapse of government)
-- Bill Kerr
David Brooks wrote:
>There has been much talk about making encryption illegal (in the UK) or
>forcing
>people to let the Government have their encryption keys. Obviously its not
the
>encryption that bothers them. Anything can be cracked. What bothers them
>(Government Intelligence Agencies[an oxymoron!]) is that their trawling
gear
>searches for words and phrases indicating the objective of the article or
>letter. If these are encrypted then those tell tale words and phrases
become
>meaningless. Their gear won't pick the communication. And there are too
many
>communications to try every one for a cypher. However there are so many
>ways to
>encrypt communications that they must know they are on a loser. Of course
>there
>is always the homing pidgeon and they could not read ancient Egyptian till
>they
>found the Rosetta stone.
>
>David
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