-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "A ghost goes around in the world...the ghost of crypto" Such as Marx's line described the general fear of governments in terms of communism, so it may be adapted to cryptography. World-wide we see strenuous work to hinder, prohibit, outlaw free crypto in favor of the surveillance states. And reality shows, why they can do so: only a fraction of the Net-population is using it. Therefore it might be time for a wide-spread campaign to further the use of crypto. "Use a cipher...be cool!". While a lot of Cypherpunks may do so on an individual level already, it will not reach the other 30 million or so. IMHO we need something of the extent of the "Blue Ribbon Campaign", where almost everybody became aware of it and involved in. On some german crypto-webpages, they have a nice symbol for their campaign against the [german] "telecommunications act": a bug. Check out http://www5.inm.de/tkg/ for some graphics (the page is in german, but the pictures speak enough). Such might be a good way to make people aware of the isues at hand and spread free crypto. The german magazine "Der Spiegel" had last week an "E-Vote" on their web page: "If it were easy enough to encrypt your e-mail, would you use cryptography?" - more than 80 percent said yes. Clearly a call to our code-writing members. If we could initiate such a campaign, that besides giving info on the current attempts to make crypto "surveillance-friendly" etc., also gives not-so-technical users an easy way to use crypto for themselves, then we might affect the current state of affaires much more, than to endlessly rant and rage against it here in our Cypherpunk-Niche. "Use a cipher - be cool!" Ciao Harka /*************************************************************/ /* This user supports FREE SPEECH ONLINE ...more info at */ /* and PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS! -> http://www.epic.org */ /* E-mail: harka(at)nycmetro.com (PGP-encrypted mail pref'd) */ /* PGP public key available upon request. [KeyID: 04174301] */ /* F-print: FD E4 F8 6D C1 6A 44 F5 28 9C 40 6E B8 94 78 E8 */ /*<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*/ /* May there be peace in this world, may all anger dissolve */ /* and may all living beings find the way to happiness... */ /*************************************************************/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBM3SoQDltEBIEF0MBAQFsLgf+MxtIEZkAI+T3OUPywvfkkmpALKXbGDHE fsSy5/xfh1LuePX8I6daBx7ZJ8e+lHZ4NpjJ20NOTcS7Bcy2W72GvUiiqTEb9UEK siGv99CUnN0wiDtsufMZ8FAjalyzoHrebOiaMGxFW9nqa1ba2qtnVz/D4GdadcP5 vNGmw881bMZvsi4/pw2YxpjXDZY03f5lwfdfaXPDBjOqJJFkG2DId58RwvTbh+B9 ciBDXRlRaH/ZmphA2Pq10AmI6PoegplKt4SeghQT1JB6S0BRGeE7e9cxfAMWIaqt AV+e0Qcf4q/QEgwzhN61noLeacPMaoNImOhrd8vabDUn3//5YCmHFg== =Wv29 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----