16 Dec
1994
16 Dec
'94
4:26 p.m.
Having been round most of the organisations in our empires perhapse we should think again about government ones? Some the activities we are interested in are illegal Illegal by which law(s)? so perhapse this also points to police/government or some combination. Are you kidding? Involving police/government might well become counterproductive, since their ideas about (computer) security are often a bit strange, to put it mildly. A clear case is the proposal recently by the Dutch government for making encryption effectively illegal; needless to say that this led to a storm of protest and eventually to the withdrawal of the proposal; and to the even more rapid spreading of PGP.... Piet