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News.com: Crypto Doesn't Kill - People Do

Posted by timothy on from the aa*jTYnd8-H//Im dept.

McSpew writes: "Bravo to News.com for telling the truth about cryptography. They even cited /.'s coverage of Phil Zimmerman's real views on PGP and its possible role in any terrorist acts." On a per-word basis, this may be the best summary of why calls to ban or restrict encryption technology (as with government key escrow, or constrained key sizes) has little to do with enhancing national or world security.

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  1. Imminent crackdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Watch the administration crack down on these seditious websites soon.

    All for improving the homeland security, of course.

  2. Central Asia tech support by 4thAce · · Score: 5, Funny
    No doubt there are any number of capable computer scientists in the Middle East and Central Asia whom these groups can turn to in a pinch for technical assistance.

    They could post their encryption concerns to a site http://slashdot.af/index.pl?section=askslashdot for instance. But I don't think the Taliban would let them call the intellectual currency "karma."

    --
    Inventor of the LOLbalrog meme.
  3. Stop this mess ! by pricorde · · Score: 4, Funny

    The FBI has found hand-written order letters in the baggages of terrorists.
    Is this PGP ?
    NO !
    So why does the crypto=terrorist meme still continues ?
    Paradoxically, paper letters are a more secure way to transmit information than the internet...

  4. Re:He's missed the point by crucini · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why not use a script that posts possible encryption schemes to slashdot? Each post would represent one 8-bit character. Each bit would be communicated by the presence or absence of a word or phrase:
    • Bit 0: Quake.
    • Bit 1: ping times.
    • Bit 2: Usenet.
    • Bit 3: Porn.
    • Bit 4: Hotmail.
    • Bit 5: Portscans.
    • Bit 6: MAC address in IPv6.
    • Bit 7: Ben Franklin quote.