The battle is far from won. It may be, in fact, headed towards being irretrievably lost. If cryptography policy on the surface appears more liberal you can bet your left nut that in parallel and more quietly the legal foundation for giving you the rubber hose treatment should you choose to keep your secret keys secret is being laid and pointed like an old-fashioned brick wall. It's the same old issue that the Bill of Rights defines the major impediments to effective law enforcement. Ought to do away with the damn thing eh? Well that's what is being done. It's pretty clear to me who's corneas are shit-smeared. >> She said her U.S. negotiators have repeatedly pressed China authorities >> to reform these rules and also dismissed Chinese efforts to restrict >> information over the Internet as futile. > > This should be an excellent antidote to the ravings of paranoids and > conspiracy freaks. The United States is now leading the world towards > ELIMINATING restrictions on cryptography! Given these policies, it > will be politically impossible for the U.S. to put domestic restrictions > into place. > > Folks, the crypto war is being won, slowly but surely. For years > doomsayers have predicted the eventual criminalization of crypto usage. > But the actual trends have consistently been in the opposite direction. > > It is time for the pessimists to take off their crap-colored glasses and > see the world for what it is. The cypherpunk movement has been tainted > for too many years by naysayers and downright nutcases whose paranoid > conspiracy fantasies have twisted their view of reality. Last year's > absurd descent into Y2K fearmongering was the sad culmination of this > trend.
