If other, more secure types of encryption become illegal, the government could arrest you for transmitting unreadable messages. The means of secret communication, not just the communication itself, will become the target of law enforcement. It will be as if the government had outlawed whispering. Even if the present proposal sounds fine to you, remember that we currently occupy just one point on an extremely disturbing curve. It is not too late for the Clinton administration to reconsider its new policy.
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Kenneth Ulrich is a free-lance writer interested in the ethics of emerging technologies. He lives in College Station, Texas.