Crypto (Score 1)

Like prohibition before it, crypto will see the light of day...policing it can't and NEVER will work. I agree...you cannot have secure e-commerce with key escrow...it's self-defeating. NO ONE has the right to know what I am doing with encryption...NO ONE... I take Spock's philospohy here: "The needs of the many outweight the needs of the few." To try and police encryption use for fear of a malevolent few actually engaging in illegal trade is futile at best and idiotic at worst. Open source technology is great in that we can really see that nothing we use is tampered with...has no back door and is viable and safe for use. I would rather eat dog shit than use a closed-source encryption program. To not encrypt your email for serious business use is an unforgivable sin, unless it is not important to you that others see the transmission. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that crypto is protected by the First Ammendment, and to get that overturned will NOT happen in our lifetime...the government will continue to develop new and more powerful tools, but with the advent of quantum computing not far over the horizon, the existing crypto standards will all change anyway...