BBC news spread Ranum's Law

[Brian Gladman]

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To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: BBC news spread Ranum's Law


> Technology can't solve social problems.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1555000/1555981.stm
>
>    Experts are warning of the risk of relying on technology to help spot
>    terrorists before they attack.
>
>    Everyone is outraged by the terrorist attacks, but that's no reason to
>    suddenly abrogate our rights
>
>    ...
>
>    "We are all focusing on this as a very hi-tech war, whereas the
>    terrorists are using very low-tech means," said Brian Gladman, former
>    technical director at Nato, and now an advisor to the net thinktank
>    the Foundation for Information Policy Research (Fipr).

I might add that I made the quote "There's so little encryption going across
the net that any that is used stands out like a sore thumb" in the context
of a discussion of its use on email.

    Brian Gladman