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Old 08-15-2008, 11:58 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Libertine View Post
I'll explain his answer for him.

1) Anyone who truly has nefarious stuff to hide (terrorist plans, cp, whatever) will send it heavily encrypted over the internet.

2) Things that will turn up are trade secrets, personal files (pictures of your naked wife, your diary, etc) and other things that the government has no business looking into.

Giving up a fair amount of privacy for zero extra security. Yeah, awesome idea.
Please stop being sensible, this is GFY, and using common sense. We all know the terrorists are morons who will have no idea how to get around elementary procedures like these. And no one would ever think the procedures were just to make it look as if you had a clue and were doing something affective.

Let's face it these procedures are all about looking good and little about real prevention.

Sorry for posting an old story, for some it's not.
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