13.9.1. transparent use, like the fax machine, is the key
13.9.2. easier token-based key and/or physical metrics for security
- thumbprint readers
- tokens attached to employee badges
- rings, watches, etc. that carry most of key (with several
bits remembered, and a strict "three strikes and you're
out" system)
13.9.3. major security scares, or fears over "back doors" by the
government, may accelerate the conversion
- all it may take are a couple of very large scandals
13.9.4. insurance companies may demand encryption, for several
reasons
- to protect against theft, loss, etc.
- to provide better control against viruses and other
modifications which expose the companies they ensure to
liability suits
- same argument cited by safe makers: when insurance
companies demanded better safes, that's when customers
bought them (and not before)
13.9.5. Networks will get more complex and will make conventional
security systems unacceptable
- "Fortress" product of Los Altos Technologies
- too many ways for others to see passwords being given to a
remote host, e.g., with wireless LANs (which will
necessitate ZKIPS)
- ZKIPS especially in networks, where the chances of seeing a
password being transmitted are much greater (an obvious
point that is not much discussed)
- the whole explosion in bandwidth
13.9.6. The revelations of surveillance and monitoring of citizens
and corporations will serve to increase the use of
encryption, at first by people with something to hide, and
then by others. Cypherpunks are already helping by spreading
the word of these situations.
- a snowballing effect
- and various government agencies will themselves use
encryption to protect their files and their privacy
13.9.7. for those in sensitive positions, the availability of new
bugging methods will accelerate the conversion to secure
systems based on encrypted telecommunications and the
avoidance of voice-based systems
13.9.8. ordinary citizens are being threatened because of what they
say on networks, causing them to adopt pseudonyms
- lawsuits, ordinary threats, concerns about how their
employers will react (many employers may adopt rules
limiting the speech of their employees, largely because of
concerns they'll get sued)
+ and some database providers are providing cross-indexed
lists of who has posted to what boards-this is freely
available information, but it is not expected by people
that their postings will live forever
- some may see this as extortion
- but any proposed laws are unlikely to succeed
- so, as usual, the solution is for people to protect
themselves via technological means
13.9.9. "agents" that are able to retransmit material will make
certain kinds of anonymous systems much easier to use
By Tim May, see README
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