Re: FW: U.K. Labour government backs 7-yr storage of email, phone calls
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:11:28PM -0400, Doug Alcorn wrote:
> Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca> writes:
>
> > > >Start using pgp now!
> > > >Then they can snoop around as much as they want :-)
> > >
> > > Doesn't help if you live in the UK, where failing to disclose your
> > > encryption key makes you guilty until proven innocent.
> >
> > time for some serious steganography systems.
>
> Are you implying that it would be possible to automatically make an
> intelligible message with an arbitrarily complex message hidden within
> it? That would be a cool trick.
apt-cache show steghide outguess
If you do all your communication using the same steganographic techniques,
and tell lots of other people how to read your messages, it's not very
secret anymore is it?
I, for one, am not going to move to the US until there is reason to believe
the people who make the laws there have stopped smoking crack payed for by
big business.
Canada has an unfortunate tendency to sell out her citizens to US
interests, but at our record on crypto laws is encouraging.
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Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
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