Labour Party goes pro-GAK - Surprise.

[T Bruce Tober]

In message <199902131336.IAA029.93@whgiii>, OpenPGP <whgiii@openpgp.net>
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>My observation is that gak/recovery/escrow/wiretap is not a dem/rep, 
>conserv/lib, authoritarian/democracy issue rather it is a government 
>persons/non-government persons issue. Crypto serves as a technical 
>barrier or point of resistance to government intrusion, and as such, 
>almost all who are in government will fear it and attack it. Agreements 
>on curtailing non-government people's access to un-gak'ed crypto will 
>likley bring together such bedfellows as China and the US, as they share 
>an interest in removing barriers to their powers to intrude upon their 
>respective non-government persons.

I think you're absolutely correct. Similarly the Net is a govt/non-govt
issue. Govt is about power and when we the people have the ability to
freely publish all our thoughts to the entire world that increases our
power and decreases the power of govt. Likewise when we can communicate
privately that increases our power and decreases that of govt.


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