Joe Shea wrote:
And if Tim May does kill me, I hope someone has his key, or better yet, can go make a showing to a judge and get it from him.
It is much more likely that a federal agent, using Tim's escrowed key to read his opinion of you, would whack you out and set Tim up for the crime, thereby eliminating two troublesome birds with one stone.
There are plenty of them, though, and they are moving vast sums of stolen money and nuclear weapon parts and stolen information all over the globe. I see no reason why we should be defenseless against them.
We are defenseless against them because they are working for the same fucking governments that you want to give your crypto keys to. Key escrow is meant for fucking the little guy in the ass, not the major players.
On the other hand, if someone's going to blow up San Francisco this week, it sure would help to have a key to any encrypted communications he was generating.
Yeah, sure. I use an escrowed key to communicate about all of my criminal activities, and I send the FBI a cc: on all of them. It sure would help if LEA's all had access to the American Reporter's files so that they could censor any writing that might encite someone to blow up San Franciso. Why don't you send them all of your writing for approval, Joe? If all the people in favor of key escrow would allow the government total access to all of their communications, then the drop in crime would more than make up for that commited by those who use encryption. If you can't afford to buy a clue, Joe, then try renting. TruthMonger