At 11:48 AM 10/13/96 +0000, everheul@mail.rijnhaave.nl wrote:

To explain the backround of "binding cryptography" once more; with respect to (interoperable, worldwide) security in the information society socities/governments have to achieve two tasks: 1. stimulating the establishment of a security structure that protects their citizens, but which does not aid criminals. 2. Coping with the use of encryption by criminals outside of this framework.

Clearly curtains aid criminals. One way of allowing private citizens to have privacy from their neighbors while still enabling legitimate government supervision of citizen units would be to have microphones and observation cameras in every home and shop that can be activated by the government without the citizen units knowledge, thus allowing citizens full curtain enabled privacy without interfering with legitmate government security interests. This will also help the government protect the citizen unit from exposure to dangerous and harmful thoughts and ideas. Present efforts to inclulcate children with a correct outlook on life are often frustrated by subversive, racist, or anti social teachings at home. This measure could help citizen units to ensure that their speech is sensitive to the concerns of minorities and oppressed groups and to current government views. Since many shopkeepers already have such devices in their shop, there is ample precedent for this system. A good start on such a system would be have the existing shop devices run to the police instead of the shopkeeper. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com