Re: Talking to the Hand
Even if true, there's some major problem with attempting to do it.
1) As a civil control/police state measure, it's unstable. You'll need a very low number of dissenters (people who just ignore and encrypt anyway) to topple it. Some of those have legitimate interest, like journalists or business people. The latter (to protect intellectual property) will lobby hard to keep sentences less harsh.
2) As a policing measure, you're still not better off to catch AND PROSECUTE the people you want. High level criminals just shrug it off. Mid-level, if clever, will adapt to other methods. You'll only catch the stupid and low-level street thugs, which is ineffective.
3) As mentioned, one does NOT NEED technology to use unbreakable communication. Book cyphers and one-time pads are some methods. Using innocent, sensible phrases that mean something else entirely are others, and are already in use.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
