On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote:
We have a goddamn right to use encryption without a government backdoor.
Frankly among certain crowds many backdoors and other bugs have been detected in most OS's, how will the mother fuckers keep them from being found and used? I mean, all you have to do is simply get their attention and have them snoop on you, meanwhile you watch all the packets and record the weird ones and you've got a copy of their session. Yeah, they may use crypto on the back door, but even so, you now know their formats, and can also disassemble the code. When you do, you've got the hole and can publish it. Once you publish the hole and break the program. Who will have confidence in that program after it's broken? After the evil laws, our jobs will be to break ALL GAK'ed software. How will they prevent that? Passing more laws to make the exposure of bugs and holes illegal? Sort of like the cell scanner laws? :) =====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder@sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... ======================= http://www.sundernet.com ==========================