Re:Encryption (Score 1)

It's about time! Why should they blame Echelon for reading email or listening to cell phone calls. Anyone can do it without encryption. They should blame executives who discuss sensitive proposal data over open cell phones or unencrypted email. At first, it was the European Parliment blaming the US for pushing key escrow for purposes of industrial espionage. That is so ridiculous, because the escrowed keys certainly wouldn't be held by the US. If they were, who in thier right mind would encrypt competition (with the US) sensitive data with thier escrowed key. Hopfully, France and the rest of the world will begin to see the light. Privacy is a basic human right, and one way to protect it is with encryption. The US respects this right to the extent that it is illegal to wiretap, without a court order, in a criminal investigation. I found it humorous when the ban came on radio scanners which could scan cell phone frequencies. As a kid, I made a little radio with a diode hooked to the water pipes. It seems ridiculous that it would be illegal to turn the tuning knob too far. That is like making a law that you must cover your ears if you hear someone talking softly to someone else. If you don't want anyone else to know something, don't broadcast it to the world (unencrypted).