re would clipper make a good cover for other encryption method bontchev fbihh informatik uni hamburg de vesselin bontchev writes if there are many as er people in the usa who reason like the above then it should not be surprising that the current plot has been allowed to happen the willingness of the majority of the people to give up their freedom in exchange for a sense of safety is hardly limited to the usa and is an endemic problem in any human society of any appreciable size the structure of the us government does try to combat this tendency to some extent but fighting entropy is always a losing battle most people would rather have comfort than freedom the paradox is that you can t really have the former in the long term unless you have the latter one of the reasons that i probably come across to some people as a weird cross between a libertarian and an establishment tool is that i end up taking an utterly pragmatic view of government i don t get up in arms when the government fails to protect the interests of the people because in my lifetime it never has therefore i have no expectation that it will as a result i protect my own interests rather than expecting the government to be fair i will use strong cryptography when i think it is needed whether or not it is legal at the time same thing with anything else the government would rather not see in private hands that s their problem what s important to me is using the right tool for the job if it s legal so much the better if it is not but does not violate my very strong sense of personal ethics i will use it anyway as long i think it is worth it expecting the government to actually protect the interests of its citizens except by accident is utter folly even jefferson one of the major architects of the american system of government figured that in a couple hundred years it would become so corrupt and self serving that it would be time dismantle it and try again by revolution if necessary i agree and while i don t go around trying to spark one i ll certainly participate if it happens when i m around there is a reason i am such a strong supporter of individual rights while being so cynical about politics i ve already written off politics and yes this may get me in trouble some day if so so be it i drive faster than mph too amanda walker intercon systems corporation
