At 7:45 AM -0400 10/11/96, Tim Scanlon wrote:
by way of Timothy C. May: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It seems to me that they are actually selling two seperate things. One is connectivity the other storage. The storage might have a different legal status than the connectivity. So, is email part of the connectivity or the storage? What is the legal status of phone company provided voice mail? This seems pretty close to email.
Careful with the attribution--I did not write anything in the paragraph above. However, I agree with most of the points you made.
That aside, they're deluding themselves. As long as there are CryptoAnarchists and people willing to create the ability for common people to maintain (notice I said maintain) privacy in their lives, they won't win. They can't unless they want to sacrifice freedom and become totolitarians.
Key Escrow is bullshit. It's a bad concept, a bad idea, and mainly satisfies the control needs of a bunch of prune faced uptight stressed out & paranoid spooks. No one ~needs~ any form of publicly used key escrow (corps may want it for private internal use, but that's private) And I'll be damned if I'll ever use it. -Give no ground.
--Tim May "The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology." [NYT, 1996-10-02] 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: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."