RE: [Raven] And it ought to be remembered that there is...

["chefren" <chefren@pi.net>]

On 13 Apr 00, at 16:07, Ed Stone wrote:

> At 01:34 PM 4/13/2000 , chefren wrote:
> 
> >I still wonder why it is so difficult to explain here that
> >free use of strong encryptions inevitably will bring us law
> >enforcement virtually sitting on our desks and tables at
> >home.
> 
> Because everyone else is so stupid? Do you mean that law enforcement is 
> going to monitor our communications, and it will be done one of two ways:
> 1. cheap and easy, by wiretap standards on telecom and net
> 2. expensive and difficult, by sending in microphones into homes, etc.
> 
> and you actually think that IF the government is going to monitor 
> communications, #1 is better?

Your big "IF" is a reality here in The Netherlands and 
elsewhere. Law enforcement uses both means (it should be 
added: Both ways aren't cheap).

> If they are going to monitor communications, I prefer it to be as 
> expensive, customized and difficult as possible, so as to provide a 
> retarding of it that law enforcement's view of its own boundaries, does not.


It's so difficult to think one milimetre further...

And who is going to pay for that "as expensive and 
difficult as possible"???

You and me!


Don't worry, I have clearly understood, it's too difficult 
for you to think any further than yourself.

+++chefren


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