Two points. First open source crypto with a back door is a joke. Everyone could see the back door and use it. This could be, at worst, the begining of the end of either crypto or open source in this country. Much more likely this will simply be another unenforced (or worse yet, selectively enforced) law.
Second, this law will be even more difficult to enforce once all the/.'ers start sending pseudo-random garbage across the net at regular intervals. That should sufficiently bog down the man power of any evesdropping agency.
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> It will stop idiots performing toolbar vandalism, but it won't stop the professionals.
There are *professional* wikipedia vandals??!? Wow, am I in the wrong line of business!
Two points. First open source crypto with a back door is a joke. Everyone could see the back door and use it. This could be, at worst, the begining of the end of either crypto or open source in this country. Much more likely this will simply be another unenforced (or worse yet, selectively enforced) law.
/.'ers start sending pseudo-random garbage across the net at regular intervals. That should sufficiently bog down the man power of any evesdropping agency.
Second, this law will be even more difficult to enforce once all the