I'm wonder if the Israeli law allows you to
encrypt your communications over public channels.
I wouldn't shock me to find out the even this discussion is illegal :)
On 20/08/2007 01:03, Amos Shapira wrote:
On 20/08/07, *Nadav Har'El* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
far less opposed to giving the police more search power. It doesn't
make us a
totalitarian state, unless the police actually (ab)uses this power,
and so
far, I don't think that it actually does.
There is also the issue of having all the information about you
concentrated in one place, open for corrupt officials to give/sell away
to anyone who wants to know this stuff about you.
It's already mostly there with the Identification Number being a single
"join" field on everything written about you - from your birth
certificate through your school marks, your army records, your rental
agreements, bank records, national insurance, any club membership your
have etc. etc.
As far as I followed the article, the new law is just going to make it
even easier to track you.
BTW - all this cryptography and stenography stuff is not the point - I
suppose none of us in this forum are criminals that have anything to
hide. But as law abiding citizens we are now even more exposed to
criminals having more information about us - e.g. someone who gathers
enough information about you can start pretending to be you and get
credit cards on your name, or know that you are away from home for a
period and break into it, knowing exactly what to look for because they
also found your credit card or warranty records, etc.
--Amos
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