> The Canadian gov itself was taking advantage of this last year by
> investing in commercial encryption technology if I recall.
But the government doesn't have to obey the law -- they just change
it, or issue themselves a waiver...
> Btw what are the odds of prosecution considering the US govt lost
> the last lawsuit on the grounds that the law violated free speech ?
Possibly pretty good, everyone knows that encryption is only used by
terrorist, child-pornographers and child-molesters who have something
to hide and that these people should be killed on the spot, no need
for a trial -- we all know they are guilty.
Next time there is a big porn-ring bust, watch the press coverage of
this, sooner or later someone at a press conference, sitting in the
back, (not looking like any of the other reporters) with a lobotomy
scar across their forehead will ask -- 'Did they use any encryption?'
and surely the will have, the last people used something from the
'former KGB' whatever the hell that's supposed to be.
It's good the FBI (et al) is out there to protect the public from
these people who user highly sophisticated technical encryption
technologies on their Windows machines via their AOL accounts.
-Chris
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