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Re: Encryption Under 'Full-Frontal Nuclear Assault' By U.S. Bills

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From: chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com (Chris M. Thomasson)
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by: Chris M. Thomasson - Sat, 8 Jan 2022 22:24 UTC

On 9/4/2020 4:31 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:
> In article <20200904120315.0000021e@300baud.de>,
> Stefan Claas <sac@300baud.de> wrote:
>
>> Exactly! Add on top of that the motto 'supremacy&leadership' and everybody,
>> old enough, should ask themselves why Bill Clinton an AlGore 'invented' the
>> Internet. Before they 'invented' the Internet, the Internet was a friendly
>> place.
>
> And the parents of those everybodies knows Gore never claimed to
> have invented the internet. What Gore did do is get congress to
> subsidise the internet between the time it was a tool for
> programmers using 1200 bps async or 9600 bps sync into the Mbps
> commercial necessity used by much of the world's population.
>
> Back when in the good old pre-Gore days the friendly internet
> generally forbade commercial (ie for profit) use. Encryption
> wasn't that important because money wasn't being transferred. In
> the friendly days people included US mail addresses until the
> unabomber started killing people with no discerned pattern or
> motive.
[...]

What about using encryption to protect trade secrets... If I need to
communicate with a colleague across the internet, and the content of the
communication involved sensitive company secrets... Why not encrypt the
shit out of it?

"Well hello there Charlie Brown, you blockhead." -- Lucy Van Pelt

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