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[FYI] The keyboard as weapon
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- Subject: [FYI] The keyboard as weapon
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 20:33:46 +0000
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The keyboard as weapon
When calling from a mobile phone or sending e-mail, most people
assume that no one else is listening to their conversation or reading
their mail. If, however, they want to be absolutely sure of this,
they must encrypt these messages. Protecting one’s privacy or
sensitive information can be good and legitimate reasons for using
encryption. Police and intelligence services, however, seem to think
that encryption is suspicious by definition. Their line of reasoning
is that anyone who encrypts a message has something to hide. The
possibilities for the police to intercept communications have reached
unprecedented heights, but recently, the wide scale use of encryption
has threatened to bring this development to a halt, something that
the authorities are none too pleased about.
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