We are fighting the law enforcement authorities who are (validly -
wait! read on) concerned about criminals being able to encrypt records
simply on open systems and make investigations difficult. Our own FBI
is very strongly into this approach. What they (the law enforcement
agencies) apparently don't realize is that drug dealers and money
launderers can readily afford to hire any one of 10,000+ young people
who can add encryption to the criminals' systems anywhere in the
world.
I almost made it through this train of messages without responding, BUT ... ;-)
What if your understanding of this critical point is off the mark?
What if the real underlying goal is not what the FBI says it is? What
if it's something more along the lines of making sure they can spy on
anybody they want to at any time they want to? The `they' in this sentence
might not be the FBI, particularly, but some{one,people} who is working
through the FBI?
Usually this is brushed off as a paranoid fantasy. But it is apparent
to me that it is not.
Therefore it is worth our while as *people* to fix this problem.
Who is it that pays the FBI? It is us, the taxpayers who pay the FBI.
If the FBI is working for us, then why are they wanting to weaken our
defenses? That is, after all, the effect of the FBI's stated desire to
hobble the available encryption and insert tapping devices into any telecom
and datacom equipment and etc.
If the government is really worried about the drugs then why hasn't it
been stopped? Why does the CIA turn a blind eye to its agents who carry
drugs on the clandestine flights they do? Is the CIA instead involved in
drug smuggling up to its eyeballs? I have seen these accusations in many
many places ...
[Apologies to any foriegn readers ...]
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