<In mail PMARKS@VAX1.UMKC.EDU said:>
Will they come in at midnight, knocking down doors, shouting "we have a search warrant to locate illegal cryptography in your possession!" and run off with my equipment?
A friend of mine that repaired computers said he ran across an old disk drive that was used in WWII. The thing had a lever on the top that was to be pulled should anyone "burst in" unannounced. As a failsafe to protect our secrets the lever was the trigger of a mounted .38. Are we "good" American citizens going to have to write failsafe boot files that require a special combination of keypresses or it erases the hard disk? It would be a shame to have to protect our computers from the "thought police" of not Orwell's future, but our present! At least opressed countries have governments that break in and take your computer and family because they are lowlife dictators and admit it. Here the same lowlife dictator wannabes do it in the name of democracy and justice! (Not that I'd like living elsewhere.) Jim -- Tantalus Inc. Jim Sewell Amateur Radio: KD4CKQ P.O. Box 2310 Programmer Internet: jims@mpgn.com Key West, FL 33045 C-Unix-PC Compu$erve: 71061,1027 (305)293-8100 PGP via email on request. 1K-bit Fingerprint: 8E 14 68 90 37 87 EF B3 C4 CF CD 9A 3E F9 4A 73