public awareness wasre text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption in article rwing uucp pat rwing uucp pat myrto writes i think this is no accident it comes from the same philosophy that the government rules controls the people not the people controlling the government that the unconnected citizens are not sophisticated enough to know what is best for them so the government must tell the people what they need or do not need we know best and the idea that that a commoner can defend himself against government eavesdropping or unlawful attack is totally unacceptable to people with this outlook combine this all with pushing for national identity cards with smart chips to encode anything they please internal passport under the guise of streamlining the state people s health care system and with you can be certain more jewels yet to come and one sees an extremely ominous trend so what if will be ten years late it still is turning out to be an amazingly accurate prophecy unless a lot of people wake up and in a hurry one should always have every red warning light and bell and danger flag come up when the government seeks to set itself apart in regard to rights etc from the unconnected unprivileged citizen or should we now be saying subject instead why shouldn t the average person have a good secure system of data security not dependent on nebulous safeguards for maintaining that security why shouldn t the average person be able to defend himself from an agency gone rogue i am sure the feds could break into any data they really wanted to but it would take some work and using the same logic one should not be allowed to have a good safe unless a duplicate of the key s or combination are submitted for safekeeping by the government i don t really see a difference philosophically encrypted data sure won t evaporate not with such high tech tools as a tape recorder the average amerikan today seems to think that the government should be able to eavesdrop on everyone else opinion polls show that most people belive the bill of rights to grant too much freedom to people when it is not identified as such btw if anyone knows of a cite for that i d love to have it not only does this mean that these people are willing to give up everyone else s rights they don t even know what the bill of rights actually says how can we show the average person not the average usenet reader that people are actually entitiled to these rights so many people don t care if the government is taking more and more control of us all a little at a time if there was some sort of awareness of what the government is trying to do by a majority of the us population just think about what could be accomplished but there are so many that trust unthinkingly in whatever the media and government tell them
