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Government listening in on our
domestic phone calls. o A Cabinet-level U.S. Privacy Commission, with teeth. ---- The "average" American has no idea why cryptography is important to them. It is the only way to begin preventing massive illegal domestic spying. Currently, there are no restrictions on domestic use of unlimited strength cryptography. That is not because the Government hasn't complained about child pornographers or terrorists or other criminals who might use it. No, that's the reason they are giving for why U.S. companies can't EXPORT products, such as web browsers, outside U.S. territory, without compromising it with Government "Key Recovery"; i.e. made stupider and breakable. Why such an indirect control on what they claim is a domestic problem? Because that is how 'The Creeping Police State' works. Slowly, bit-by-bit. Slowly, State-by-State everyone in the U.S. is being fingerprinted. The FBI is now advocating biometric capture of all newborns too. This is an interesting manifesto, please take the time to read it. Cryptography can be used to keep private: Internet traffic, such as email, and telephone conversations (PGP phone). A version of PGP phone that looks and works like a normal telephone --- but can't be spied upon --- would eventually become wide-spread. It begins to change the mind-set that the Police State is in |
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