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insecure	Oct 11 2005, 08:14 AM
Elite member Posts: 381 Group: Trusted Member Member #10 Joined: September 9, 2005	Governments will only pay attention to human rights legislation if it isn't too inconvenient for them to do so. Remember that governments think they are more important than people - whereas in fact they are supposed to serve the people. We have a moral right to secure communications, but not all governments grant their peoples a legal right to it. The NSA knows that most people don't encrypt email. Echelon probably uses keyword searches to discard the vast majority of open email. Encrypted email, at present, probably gets closer attention. That will only change if we all start to encrypt our emails. It shouldn't matter how many computers the NSA has. Choose an encryption algorithm that would take the entire computing resources of the universe a whole creation's-worth of time to crack, and you won't need to worry about the NSA's computers. (You will still have to worry about their cryppies, though.) "Those that will not share have something to hide" is indeed a recognisable form of a famous saying (often phrased as "those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear"), used down the centuries by dictators, torturers, inquisitors, the Gestapo, and so on and so forth to justify their intrusions into people's private lives.


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