IMO: Most politicians, world leaders and corporate executives are less moral, less trustworthy, less 'nice' and less likely to obey the law than most citizens. Therefore, if any restrictions on encryption should be in place, they should be the other way around: Governments shouldn't be allowed to have encryption the citizenry can't break. So there.
FYI: K.W. Jeter wrote this great little story called "Farewell Horizontal". It takes place in the way future, where people don't worry at all about the government/big corporations (same thing, even just a little bit in the future!) having all this ultra- spiffy encryption and data security, because they figure "the hackers" can always break it and the information will get out if it needs to. Of course, as the narrator points out, the myth of the 'hackers' dates from long ago (our time), when the controls on information were shoddy and encryption was new; in his time, there's no way in h-e-double-hockey-sticks that anybody could ever crack those information stores...And he figures the population might be quite upset about it, but the media does such a good job of keeping the 'hackers can break it' myth alive...*lolol* Something to think about. Good luck with your paper! -ST ________________________________________________________________ Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.com
