Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper

[Brian Gladman]

From: "Owen Lewis" <oml@eloka.demon.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: RE: Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper


> > In my view a determined EU plan to do just this would have created a
> > situation in which the US would have talked to the European Parliament
> > delegation!
>
> There will *never* be such a determined plan because few if any at all of
> the member states would see it as in their interest to bring about such a
> situation. I think we may agree on this and that therefore also agree that
> any such wish can never become reality.
>

I agree - it has always been clear that encryption use outside of government
will come about in spite of rather than because of the wishes of most
governments.

I see this as inevitable because governments generally place even less trust
in the people they are supposed to serve than people do in the governments
that are supposed to serve them.

   Brian