Hi, I just read the latest news in german news magazine DER SPIEGEL (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,206079,00.html for those who understand german)
about Bush's "Freedom Corps" and the "TIPS" starting in August (Terrorism Information and Prevention System). They also mentioned that civil rights were simply turned off in the US after Sep11, e.g. a man was arrested and is still in jail for nothing more than just telling his opinion (the so called "freedom of speech"). The question is: Can american software be trusted anymore, when the US government wants to turn 4% of the US citizens into spys? If they already want to use common people as plumbers, electricians etc. as spys, isn't it obvious that they will use a thing like software as well? Some years ago it was like this: american software = good, trusted, friends, democracy russian software = evil, made by an empire for espionage Is it possible that they are currently switching positions? (Not to insult anyone, just to start a discussion...) Hadmut --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
