encryption and the bad guys

[Roderick A Gammon]

Somewhat relevant, considering recent posts about policy:

"In two successive briefings, senior FBI officials have stated that the
agency has as yet found no evidence that the hijackers who attacked America
used electronic encryption methods to communicate on the internet. But this
has not prevented politicians and journalists repeating lurid rumours that
the coded orders for the attack were secretly hidden inside pornographic web
images, or from making claiming that the hijacks could have been prevented
if only western governments had been given the power to prevent internet
users from using secret codes."

From: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9751/1.html

-rod g

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