Therefore most of the attention should be focused on the experience of using end products, while still recognizing that encryption is used and that strong encryption improves upon breakable encryption. Education about strong encryption is crucial. Today, only a small percentage of average computer users have the mathematical background necessary to fully understand the implications of strong encryption. In order for average users to feel safer about e-commerce transactions, etc., they will need to grasp the secure nature of strong encryption. Perhaps a change of name, as suggested by Nardi and O'Day, would help users to understand the impact of strong encryption in everyday interactions.
Information ecologies evaluate the impact of technology on human activities.
It would be entirely legal for a Canadian information ecology to explore strong encryption. Unfortunately the majority of the software that Canadians use on a daily basis is exported from the United States, and therefore does not contain strong encryption. With products like Zero Knowledge's Freedom, this could change. A Canadian information ecology could theoretically engage tools employing strong encryption, as long as two parties wishing to communicate are contained within the same information ecology. It seems to me to be a local idea, that is, applied to a specific application, organization, or situation.