[sarcasm]I feel so much safer now.[/sarcasm]
Just you wait till they start using telepathy. No trail whatsoever.
But phone reveille is still acceptable, right?
Not much of a story really. It is going to happen eventually. Point to point encryption for all types of communication is going to become normal.
I'm all for it. Sure, it gives some tools to the enemy who will probably be early adopters, but the very act of using such encryption should single them out from all the clear traffic. As for the information gathering tools we'd lose, new ones will arise. We can't freeze the enemy to using certain tools, and we can't limit ourselves eithers. With the breaking of the story of the wire tapping, the terrorists gained valuable intelligence on how we were disrupting their operations. They're already adapting, and now we have to find and adapt to them.
Information doesn't exist in a vacuum. If the terrorists are passing information through digital means, somewhere that information is unencrypted. Given that encrypted traffic can be sniffed for, tracked, rerouted - the terrorists may just discover that encrypted communications can reveal their agents, expose their agents, or may just be unreliable.
Oh, maybe not yet... But give our people time to work on the problem. I'm sure they'll figure out a way to accomplish the mission. It is a bastard of an inconvenience, but it was bound to happen.
"I love when the 'privacy' lobby puts self-interest so far in front of common sense that they can't see beyond their smug self-satisfaction."
The right of Americans to be left alone by the government unless they are doing something illegal is fundamental to the American way of life.
Zimmerman is a terrorist enabler.
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Sounds downright excellent. I'll have to download it and check it out.
No, pretty much impossible given the fact that Zimmerman is firmly on the side of privacy and is a well-known and respected cryptographer.
Still, this is nothing really new. It's an update of his old program PGPfone that let people make secure 'net phone calls before VOIP became popular.
PGP doesn't stop the police or intel people from reading encrypted email, but it does slow them down.
So we establish that the author really doesn't know what he's talking about. Depending on your configuration, yeah it'll slow them down, probably until after you die of old age. The opinion of the professional cryptographic community is that even the NSA probably does not have the resources to crack a well set-up PGP.
However, that doesn't count the use of key loggers, etc., to gain access to the passphrases or other means of circumventing PGP.
I feel so much safer now.
... from my government.
PGP allows private conversations to make it out out Communist/repressive regimes, and various other legitimate uses. Encryption protects your BANK accounts, credit cards, financial transactions with the Fed, sensitive personal data etc. As with any technology, it can be abused.
I use PGP every day. and if the government can crack multiple layers of 4096bit keys, more power to them.
It's unfortunate that the terrorists have access to gravity, but I don't blame the guy who invented gravity for the deaths.
Oh, cool. I always liked PGP.
A decade ago there was a debate about whether encryption technologies that didn't have a government-approved backdoor should be banned. Al Gore and John Ashcroft were on opposing sides of the issue. Guess whose side you're on.
Well, this should piss off Ted the swimmer and mortician Harry because it removes one of their favorite bush bashing topics!