4.9.1. "How can we get more people to use crypto?"
- telling them about the themes of Cypherpunks
- surveillance, wiretapping, Digital Telephony, Clipper, NSA,
FinCEN, etc....these things tend to scare a lot of folks
- making PGP easier to use, better integration with mailers,
etc.
- (To be frank, convincing others to protect themselves is
not one of my highest priorities. Then why have I written
this megabyte-plus FAQ? Good question. Getting more users
is a general win, for obvious reasons.)
4.9.2. "Who needs to encrypt?"
+ Corporations
- competitors...fax transmissions
+ foreign governments
- Chobetsu, GCHQ, SDECE, Mossad, KGB
+ their own government
- NSA intercepts of plans, investments
+ Activist Groups
- Aryan Nation needs to encrypt, as FBI has announced their
intent to infiltrate and subvert this group
- RU-486 networks
- Amnesty International
+ Terrorists and Drug Dealers
- clearly are clueless at times (Pablo Escobar using a
cellphone!)
- Triads, Russian Mafia, many are becoming crypto-literate
- (I've been appoached-'nuff said)
+ Doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, etc.
- to preserve records against theft, snooping, casual
examination, etc.
- in many cases, a legal obligation has been attached to
this (notably, medical records)
- the curious situation that many people are essentially
_required_ to encrypt (no other way to ensure standards
are met) and yet various laws exists to limit
encryption...ITAR, Clipper, EES
- (Clipper is a partial answer, if unsatisfactory)
4.9.3. "When should crypto be used?"
- It's an economic matter. Each person has to decide when to
use it, and how. Me, I dislike having to download messages
to my home machine before I can read them. Others use it
routinely.
By Tim May, see README
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