From: Gary Wiltshire 


The tide has gone out.  It is never coming back!  Never!


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:47:29 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>Geo. wrote:
>> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
>> news:3ea8fcc0{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>
>>>I don't think it is a judgement call. Not unless you call Canute trying
>>>to order the tide back out a judgement call.
>>
>>
>> All security is a judgement call, a balancing act. However you lost me on
>> the tide comment?
>>
>
>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".
>
>
>>
>>>Yeah I mean once those fiendish bollywood types start making demands on
>>>the poor old US consumer.......Indian spychip in every US PC 
>>
>>
>> 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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