On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > of our very small community, we are faced with the use of these very > strong encryption tools by those who would attack the very heart of our > way of life. We need to take a step back and consider how GnuPG should > be used in the future.
I strongly disagree with conclusion and state that we need to continue to tell people to use of privacy tools - without any backdoors. It needs to be as common as locking the door of your card and house. Yes, I can imagine a world where this would not be required but our world is not yet like that. Speaking of Germany, our home secretary is working on turning Germany into a surveillance state despite the terrific experience we had 70 years ago. He tells us that we need to give up some freedom to be safer against terrorism. The real terrorism experience we make here are due to neo-nazis punching people to death or a single nazis who bombed the October-Feast. Nothing which can be avoided by surveillance. Those they will catch with these measures are the little crooks and small tax dodgers. All citizens are put under general suspicion - this is in total contradiction to our long existing and hard-fought culture of justice. Instead of doing something reasonable for saving lives, like a speed limit on our streets, feeding the poor or caring about those who drown in the Mediterranean Sea on their getaway from the climatic changes, we put millions and millions into surveillance. If you want to fight terrorism you need to solve the real problems of the people and thus pulling away the volunteers of terror. Banning encryption in any way is not an option. There is well known saying attributed to Phil Zimmermann: When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws have encryption. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
