-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I've been reading through "Applied Cryptography," as every good boy and girl should :) and one of the concepts struck out at me recently. The idea of the Chinese Lottery seemed to be rather far fetched in my first few readings, but then I came across the discussion of the new Emergency Broadcast System. This may just be an unfair helping of paranoia, but the system seems to be a perfect distribution system for a Chinese Lottery-like keychecking or cracking system. Even though the public can turn off the broadcast, the signal will still be sent. The chips may even be government-regulated... available only from the government so no one can tamper with the signal and use this system for their own information-disemination needs (*ahem* Political agendas *ahem* re-election ads). They might even encrypt the signals, for a touch of irony. Anyone find fault in this? - -Joshua M. Sled <jsled@ctp.org/jsled@free.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLw3WJqTT29daLBKRAQFbRgP/RAhGdEmxMe4zOuLORY9rKu7VhapXen7S 6+cVOvrlOxJ2ohCmxZpXbwKY9oR6ggF1jURwb9LZEiHPfzaOOsftURxcmJUsC2db 1vkSRuBarkm6vOK+JIlLMwKzRdk9omt+TmJPD7/wI5M1jhMfLRNS+fkbEpDFtisn 0s1H2nvXdDs= =kGbJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- þ KWQ/2 1.2g NR þ "MTV get off the air!" - DKs