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

[Ed Stone <estone@synernet.com>]

At 05:03 PM 4/13/2000 , you wrote:
>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...

You mean the "next" surveillance that law enforcement "must have"? Not hard 
for me...


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

Optimally, it will be people whose privacy is invaded by the surveillance. 
If they don't want to lose that privacy, then they sure don't want to pay 
for it, and possibly some political tapping/taxing heads will roll... That 
would be quite nice.


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

Your brilliance is difficult for we stupid people to follow sometimes. We 
must do the best we can.


>+++chefren
>
>
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