[Congress considers encryption restrictions in response to attacks]

[Alan Dayley]

I can see it now...
<sarcasm>
Terrorists sitting in front of a computer is some foriegn country.  They
say "Oh, no!  The US Congress has outlawed strong encryption!  How will we
communicate securely with our operatives?"

Ring. Ring.

"Hello?"  "You are not supposed to call on the phone from the US, you
idiot!"  "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't use encryption anymore now.  What
will we do?"

Thus, terrorism is defeated.
</sarcasm>

Outlaw encryption: Feels good, like you did something.
Effectiveness: ZERO.

Alan

At 02:41 PM 9/13/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Things look bad for strong Crypto.
>My proxy may be offline longer that I thought :(
>I really picked a bad time to be in USA Today.
>=======================================================
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html
>   
>   Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws
>   By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
>   1:45 p.m. Sep. 13, 2001 PDT
>   
>   WASHINGTON -- The encryption wars have begun.
>   
>   For nearly a decade, privacy mavens have been worrying that a
>   terrorist attack could prompt Congress to ban
>   communications-scrambling products that frustrate both police wiretaps
>   and U.S. intelligence agencies.
>   
>   Tuesday's catastrophe, which shed more blood on American soil than any
>   event since the Civil War, appears to have started that process.
>   
>   [...]
>
>Read the rest at the link above.
>
>--
>Jean Francois - JLF Sends...
>JLF In the News Sep 12, 2001:
>http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/12/ebrief.htm
>
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