Yo! Scott:
Wednesday May 28 1997 06:00, Scott Christensen wrote to Rick Wilson:
 RW>> PLEASE explain to me WHY THE HELL we NEED the internet???
 SC> I have a new theory.  The US government is in love with the Internet
 SC> because they can get their hands on it and grab communications from
 SC> people. They are *not* in love with Fidonet because it is so amorphous 
and
 SC> hard to get ahold of.
The government BUILT, developed, and then gave away the Internet.
 SC> So I think that there is a definite "snoop factor" involved.
Easily countered, though.
 SC> Remember the "clipper chip?"  This was their way of giving us a false
 SC> sense of security - *they* could break that encryption any time they
 SC> wanted.
Security?  Hah!  The Clipper Chip had everyone's rectums pinching down on 
their seats.  No love for that puppy..........
 SC> Ya, I'm probably nuts, I came up with this theory too late one night.
 SC>   But after the stories of the communications monitoring that we
 SC> have all heard about, it begins to make sense.  (You know - about
 SC> the interception of microwave, cellular, VHF, UHF and so on,
 SC> communications and banks of computers looking for key words with voice
 SC> recognition...)  What do you think?  Could I be right or have I been
 SC> listening to too much Art Bell?  
There are growing pains associated with anything new.  We have to evolve our 
own standards and secure methodologies and keep the government out of it.
 SC> And now we pipe most everything on Fidonet through the Internet.  I
 SC> wonder what would happen if we started encrypting the mail packets
 SC> with PGP before they were sent over the Internet.  It would prove my
 SC> theory if there were some pressure put on Fido folks to stop it...
 SC> 
It is against Fido Policy4 to do that.  But then maybe the government has 
been running Fido all these years.........
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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