🚀 go-pugleaf

to Hell.
              National ID cards are effectively being implemented without
              needing to issue cards. The U.S. Government is trying to
              monitor all phone calls and banking transactions, and have
              all equipment worldwide designed for their monitoring. They
              are bent on controlling the world to the point of there being
              no crime left on the planet. Of course, democracy destroyed
              is the direct result.


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This publication advocates five major items:

    o Passage of ProCode/SAFE legislation, allowing U.S. companies to
      export unlimited strength cryptography, free from "Key Recovery".
      Key Recovery means messages are no longer a secret, because the
      Government has screwed around with it.

    o Killing the CALEA legislation, which orders all communications
      equipment be DESIGNED so the Government can spy on it.

    o Dismantling domestic ECHELON, the Government listening in on our
      domestic phone calls.

    o A Cabinet-level U.S. Privacy Commission, with teeth.


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The "average" American has no idea why cryptography is important to them.

It is the only way to begin preventing massive illegal domestic spying.

Currently, there are no restrictions on domestic use of unlimited strength
cryptography. That is not because the Government hasn't complained about
child pornographers or terrorists or other criminals who might use it.

No, that's the reason they are giving for why U.S. companies can't EXPORT
products, such as web browsers, outside U.S. territory, w