Come on, you can't be serious! Suppose your terrorist isn't an external terrorist but some wack job from Marin who happens to be a citizen already? Besides, I think Metro PCS and Go phone are more terrorist friendly, not encryption. Terrorism is all about pay as you go anonymous cell phone plans and home made explosives, not strong cryptography. Besides, all terrorists would be honest and check yes just like all cops are honest and never check no on the "have you used drugs" question when they actually smoked a fatty in high school!

----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Hilliard" <[email protected]>
To: "Gert Doering" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Download manager hell and latest Windows VPN Client?


On 24/09/2009 08:38, Gert Doering wrote:
Fill in a web form once, claim "yes, I'm no terrorist!", and then the
FTP servers put you into a "he's no terrorist, may download crypto
software" group...

This is really "Internet 0.9" knowledge.

Gert,

You're ignoring the possibility that people change over time. What if a person was a regular joe soap on the day that they filled out this web form, but had become a terrorist within a short period of time? How would your single form proposal cope with this, pray tell? Filling in the terrorism / nuclear arms shipment / bioweapons form each time is designed precisely to deal with smart alecs who think that they can get around arms embargoes like this.

Nick
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