Crypto Blamed for US terrorist attack - World Exclusive

[Ken Brown]

Bruce Tober wrote:
> 
> That's the headline I picture on all the tabloids within a fortnight,
> with the subhead:
> Government Ministers to Ban E-mail Encryption (except under strict
> licensing)
> 
> And that will be in the US, the UK and throughout most of the rest of
> the world.
> 
> Comments?

I doubt if encryption is crossing their minds for a moment.  They have
other things to do.

The obvious, inevitable, clampdown will be on air travel in the USA.
From, I guess, the next commercial plane to take off in   the contiguous
US, whenever that is, you will be searched and required to show id. To
accommodate those who have neither a photo driving licence or a
passport, they will probably introduce a "voluntary" id card scheme. The
same might happen here - the Tories in the UK have privately wanted to
introduce id cards for years now, and this might persuade Labour to go
along with them. 

Lots of places will ban commercial flights over city centres. Expect
London skies to be quieter and flights to take 10-30 minutes longer.  If
you are a US shareholder, sell construction and buy rail. (Don't buy
rail shares in the UK - sooner or later the government will take it all
back again)

The Son of Star Wars gung-ho techies in the US military have egg on
their faces. Expect less money to go to them & more to the FBI &
immigration control.

Nobody will even pay attention to crypto.

And they will make someone suffer. Probably someone Palestinian, whether
or not they have anything to do with it. 

Of course the rumour that it was all got up by Mossad to persuade the
USA to ignore Israeli repression in Palestine is already doing the
rounds, no doubt helped along by the residual anti-semite factions in
the US right.

All desperately sad, but nothing at all to do with crypto.