Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper

[Owen Lewis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Brian Gladman
> Sent: 09 July 2001 16:46
> To: UK Crypto Posting
> Subject: Re: Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper
>
>
> From: "Owen Lewis" <oml@eloka.demon.co.uk>
> To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:29 AM
> Subject: RE: Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper
>
> [snip]
> In order to avoid a long debate about this I should make it clear
> that I am
> in favour of the universal use of cryptography for end-to-end information
> protection.

No long debate over that. I quite understand that to be your position. What
I do not understand is one is to reconcile that with ".....remove the
privacy and industrial/commercial espionage concerns raised by Echelon
without undermining its
value in other areas". If you have the answer to that, then you have a very
powerful idea indeed.
>
> I just happen to believe that the case for this is more likely to be
> undermined rather than strengthened by activities that are too limited in
> their coverage of the issues involved.

Sounds as though you might have a book in the making :-) However, whilst I
can see a book being required properly to cover the ethics of governance and
an analysis of realpolitik and social pathology in the 21st century, the
crux, the philosopher's stone if there be one, would seem perforce to be a
relatively straightforward technical issue. But then, as I was oft reminded
in my younger years, 'all things are simple to the simple minded'. I can
still struggle with that a bit.

Owen