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Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World
zeke writes: "An article on SecurityFocus details how forced key escrow and other crypto restrictions have taken root around the world, in countries like France, South Africa, the Netherlands and the UK. Ironically, this leaves the United States -- the birthplace and graveyard of the Clipper Chip -- as one of the few bastions of unregulated encryption."
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decode that message with the decoder ring you got with your SS#, and get the coorinates for osama.
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"www.citizencorps.gov is a site that uses encryption to protect transmitted information. However, Netscape does not recognize the authority who signed its Certificate."
Because last time I checked, we STILL can't export the good stuff to them anyway. Or post the source. Or talk about it too loud.
Never confuse volume with power.
SSH was developed by Microsoft in 1992. Little known fact.
instead one out of 24 of your friends will be spies for your government [smh.com.au].
Yes, but I've already solved that problem by having less than 24 friends!
Sort of like that town that wrote a law banning Satan from their town. I'm sure he's going to listen and if he doesn't comply, they'll lock him up right away, eh?
What?
Why should I need crypto when I have palladium to ensure the security of my PC anyway?
A musician without the RIAA, is like a fish without a bicycle.
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! I mean, if I went around saying I was an Emperor because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, people would put me away!
(Sorry, somehow the "not installed by a judiciary" triggered this in my brain)
Unfortunately, this just means that a quantum computer quickly determines if you won or lost. It doesn't help you play any better nor worse, merely to calculate your ranking faster.
Of course, you have to use the mod which lets you carry around sealed boxes which you open whenever you meet an opponent. You can play faster with Smell-O-Vision, as you can tell faster if a cat is dead or not.
The one made by Microsoft?
No, not that one. The one which Microsoft doesn't even know the source code for. They just plugged it in and because it began working, it had solved the problem of its own programming.
It only works successfully because they haven't tried to fix it, and as soon as they look at the code it will quit working because that is now the predetermined outcome.
Yeah, the laws have softened in the U.S. yet no Linux distribution (other than ones originating from outside the country) will ship with an IPsec implementation pre-installed.
There is still alot of fear that this softening of restictions will eventually rebound.
SUPPORTING INFORMATION
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Here is a list of some distributions that do include IPsec and their country of origin:
SuSE Linux (Germany)
Conectiva (Brazil)
Mandrake (France)
Best Linux (Finland)
Polish(ed) Linux Distribution (Poland)
come on fhqwhgads