Re: More info that US passports will get RFID and digital signatu res

[Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In the case of crypto,  either the services gave up and recognised that the
> genie was already too far out of the bottle (hence perhaps the pressure for
> increased powers of surveillance in other ways in order to compensate),  or
> they allowed widespread encryption because they recognised the benefits it
> could bring to commerce might outweigh the problems,  or they allowed it
> because they already have mechanisms that might break it - an explanation
> can be chosen based on viewpoint and tinfoil hat-size.
My own theory was that not just was it out of the bottle, fighting too 
hard only brought it more firmly into public view where the vast 
majority feel secure in the knowledge that their government may in fact 
listen to phone converstations on the vaguest of excuses, but would 
never do it to *them*.