-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:11:19PM -0700, James A.. Donald wrote:
At 02:34 PM 10/15/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
IMHO, the NSA has enough expertise and technology to crack just about any cipher out there.
No it does not.
The expertise of the NSA, great though it is, is small compared to the expertise outside the NSA.
Assuming we can evaluate accurately the magnitude of what goes on inside the NSA...
As much as that may suck, there isn't a whole lot we can do about it. Besides, in the new world of globalization, I think we should be worrying more about corporations than about the NSA.
Have you been sealed in a box the last ten years? Companies may send you junk mail. Governments will confiscate your property and put you in jail,.
Companies are wanting to keep records of genetic information and other HUGE infringments on privacy. Sure, right now, the bigger risk is the government (what with Carnivore and all), but I'd say that in less than a decade, global corporations will be much more powerful than any government. Already, with WTO/NAFTA/etc. regulations, corporations are often outside of the control of governments.
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