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Poll Says Most Americans Favor Crypto Backdoors
Sideways The Dog writes: "According to this MSNBC article, "72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption laws would be 'somewhat' or 'very' helpful in preventing a repeat of last week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C." I realize that I'm preaching to the choir here, but it is scary how many people do not realize that the bad guys are not going to play fair here. Even granted that people may not realize the tools are already out there for the bad guys to use, I wonder what the polls will say when the backdoor gets compromised and 72% of people get their bank accounts wiped." Update: 09/19 19:26 PM GMT by T : Declan McCullagh adds a link to "the actual text of the question asked by the
pollsters, which Princeton Survey Research Associates describes here." Note the numbers on this page as well.
I wonder what the polls will say when the backdoor gets compromised and 72% of people get their bank accounts wiped."
Probably that 100% of Slashdot readers are laughing uproariously.
--saint
yeah, it's new, they're trying to keep out A/C "FP! I RoX0R!" type stuff.
Yeah. And "232134th post! Woop!" just doesn't have a nice ring to it.
dammit beat me to it.
The use of
is like a haiku, you see.
Don't use autowrap!
That's all well and good,
but 31337 h4x0r3z prefer
the classic <BR>
Your 1337 h4x0r 5ki115 notwithstanding,
And agreement I'm sure not demanding,
But our points likely jive:
One stroke's better than five.
Such is why Intel still builds those NAND things.
My stroke preference:
A lady's hand on schlong: five.
On the keyboard: one.