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Re: Wayner op-ed in today's NYTimes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Tue Jul 29 23:06:05 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:40:56 -0400
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Cc: karn@qualcomm.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <87022765003820@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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At 01:54 PM 7/30/97, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>That's an argument which I've been trying to use here, with mixed results. A
>more generic form (for countries which didn't have revolutions :-) is that the
>status quo for millenia was that it was possible to have completely private
>conversations (just walk into the middle of a field and talk queitly with the
>other party), it's merely an accident of technology in the last 50 years or so
>that it's possible to have pretty much universal monitoring of communictions.
>It's crypto which is *restoring* the status quo, not the other way around.
>
>The standard counterargument to this is that we're now dealing with more
>sophisticated criminals/drug dealers/pedophiles (which are of course a recent
>phenomenon, they didn't exist until the Internet was created for them)/etc,
>and therefore we need a bigger hammer.
..but who is "we", kimosabe?
criminals and pedophiles can eavesdrop also. My daughter is grown, now, but if
she were still a pre-teen, I'd want her using PGP for all mail with friends
(both for privacy and authentication).
My friends who are undercover drug cops in Boston (Dorchester, if you know
Boston), assured me they never run into crypto -- just need not to be
out-gunned by the druggies. That's their big concern. Next after that comes
computers for writing reports. The drug dealers have better computers, too,
not just better guns, more cellular phones, ....
- Carl
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