> Your faith in government is touching. The fact is, the crypto ban will
only
> be truly repealed when the NSA has quantum chips that can decode almost
> anything in realtime. The government does not care ONE SMEGGING BIT about
> 'terrorists' or 'criminals' or 'spies'. It cares only, solely, and totally
> about being able to spy on average citizens. It wants control, and that's
all.
Your paranoia is getting the better of you.
Most people who work for governments are ordinary people and not the
facist thugs of your bizare fantasies.
Most people who work for intelligence agencies are pretty normal come
to that.
> > The problem was that it was billed as a purely civil rights issue. This
> >won the argument on the need to change policy but not the issue of
timing.
> >I spent several years trying to work out an answer to the question 'but
if
> >as you say it is having no effect, why is there a need for a change
now?'.
> >
> Actually, I found, to my annoyance, it was billed as a competitiveness
> issue. OTOH, if it wasn't, NO ONE would have paid attention. At least a
few
> people in government are more interested in money than in power, but not
> enough.
As I said, the civil rights issue had no traction since there was an
inherent
contradiction. We all knew that the export control regs. were inffective.
So how could an ineffective regulation be a civil right threat?
Thats why the competition issue was important, it gave the issue urgency.
Phill
