In message <87761312106967@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz> Peter wrote:
There have been various rumours and comments over the past few years that the use of crypto in certain countries (Syria, Iraq, possibly China) is very dangerous for the end user, but very little actual evidence to substantiate this. [snip, with reference to Iraq] He can't remember the exact details any more, but the implication was that any encrypted messages sent to them would result in them quietly dissapearing.
So a possible consequence of someone from Iraq being obnoxious on a mailing list, to someone in the know, could be several PGP-encrypted mails dumped in their inbox... A little extreme, for us gentles, but the threat should be effective. Of course, spamming every Iraqui email address you could find with encoded mail could cause a _lot_ of trouble. Tim G.