[OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

Actually it is not about proposed laws. It is about an initiative to
create such proposals. But the subject of my message was long enough:

  http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=206232

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One note: people there seem to be quite clueless regarding the
distribution of encryption technologies:

  The legitlators accept the position of the Security Forces according to
  which "limiting the use of encryption and limiting the distribution of
  sophisticated security systems will help the defense organizations to
  intercept messages containing information that can lead to to the
  circumvention of terrorist acts. On the other hand, giving encryption
  technologies to terrorists will increase the number of casualties in
  crimes that can't be prevented.

Anybody else senses here a cheap use of the terror (in greek: fear)
threat?

And what about technologies that are already available to the public (e.g:
the american legislation regarding open-source (?) encryption
technologies)?

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
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http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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