Crypto, drugs and the NSA (was: Criminals and strong encryption)

[William H. Geiger III]

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In <E0yUTEy-0004Vf-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>, on 04/29/98 
   at 10:33 AM, Ross Anderson <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk> said:

>Anyone who has read Gibbon on how the late Roman Empire
>suffered from increasing civil service power and corruption which people
>embraced as they became steadily more docile and risk averse, would
>oppose GAK on this ground alone,

Well GAK is only a symptom what needs to be done is to attack the illness
(Big centralized government). Until we start to attack the illness rather
than the symptoms we will be fighting a continually loosing battle.

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