At 8:48 PM -0800 12/5/96, Greg Broiles wrote:
PC Magazine's web site has a prominent article reviewing four PC-based crypto apps: they all seem to be oriented towards storage security not communications security (to adopt Tim's taxonomy). The apps are from ...
A good way of putting things. I wann't thinking in terms of a strict tanonomy of "storage" vs. "communications,: but this is certainly so. The government wants access to our _commuinications_,, while it is our _storage_ that we as users are interested in protected. (Not that I grant them access to "storage," but it's important to point out that their claims about helping to protect ciitizen-units are bogus, too.) --Tim Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."