From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:3ea8fcc0{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>I don't think it is a judgement call. Not unless you call Canute trying
>>to order the tide back out a judgement call.
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> All security is a judgement call, a balancing act. However you lost me on
> the tide comment?
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I don't think the gov (any gov) can "order the tide to back out".
I think the same applies to OSS & to OSS security. e.g. imagine you
have some bright spark maths person in say Ukraine or Russia or India or
anywhere outside of the US. There is a fairly high % chance that his
encryption algorithm is going to go OSS & how much control do gov's
have over that? Security is being driven by bigger $'es than govs can chuck
about i.e. by the business world & the generic "computer
user".


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>>Yeah I mean once those fiendish bollywood types start making demands on
>>the poor old US consumer.......Indian spychip in every US PC 
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> I was thinking more along the lines of more secure hardware being required
> to provide DRM and that's a feature they will want exported, same hardware
> can be used to secure those external computers against US spooks.
>

Can be but IMHO they will have some sort of updateable code block otherwise
one good hack & the lot is rendered null & void. If you have a chip
which checks all "content" & is updateable it becomes a
natural target for spooks.

Adam

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