This is true that what you're describing would work, but you're talking about a translation, not an encryption. Using a good encryption scheme, all encrypted instances of a given string would not be the same.
There is an easier, and far more traditional solution. Have a war.
Yeah, WWII really did a good job of decreasing the world's population...until about 9 months after the men returned home...
So I don't know much about this, but according to a quick search I came up with 13 200 000 000 as a rough estimate for europe's GDP for 2002. Is 1/132th of a percent of their GDP going to make a difference in their budget spending? doubtful. But it will make a difference to Microsoft. I don't think this is a money grab at all, but that's just me.
The terrorists that were caught in Toronto were caught by CSIS/RCMP agents using legal survellience techniques, hanging out in chatrooms then getting warrants for further survellience, and finally arresting them when they purchased the fertalizer(from feds who intercepted the shipment), not demanding that they be able to arbitrarily scrutinize every bit of information travelling through the country. The phone calls and internet traffic of every Canadian wasn't looked at, just the suspects. So no, we didn't trade privacy for security, and the approved survellience methods seem to have worked better than the intrusive ones adopted by some countries.
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This is true that what you're describing would work, but you're talking about a translation, not an encryption. Using a good encryption scheme, all encrypted instances of a given string would not be the same.
There is an easier, and far more traditional solution. Have a war. Yeah, WWII really did a good job of decreasing the world's population...until about 9 months after the men returned home...
So I don't know much about this, but according to a quick search I came up with 13 200 000 000 as a rough estimate for europe's GDP for 2002. Is 1/132th of a percent of their GDP going to make a difference in their budget spending? doubtful. But it will make a difference to Microsoft. I don't think this is a money grab at all, but that's just me.
The terrorists that were caught in Toronto were caught by CSIS/RCMP agents using legal survellience techniques, hanging out in chatrooms then getting warrants for further survellience, and finally arresting them when they purchased the fertalizer(from feds who intercepted the shipment), not demanding that they be able to arbitrarily scrutinize every bit of information travelling through the country. The phone calls and internet traffic of every Canadian wasn't looked at, just the suspects. So no, we didn't trade privacy for security, and the approved survellience methods seem to have worked better than the intrusive ones adopted by some countries.