If you don't believe it is a legitimate function of government to infiltrate and subvert foreign nations' information and strategic businesses, just ask the French Intelligence Service. Or better yet, ask Hughes Aircraft or any other high-tech company. That is the biggest and most pervasive argument for widely available, strong crypotography. Your entire screen, every keystroke you make, and every character you print broadcasts energy in every direction. Everything you do is public.
Encryption can be a mis-leading illusion.
Food for thought. You assume that these people observe the legal niceties. And even then it is arguable that her knowledge is direct, for a native child of the land of the giraffe might come up with a whole body of knowledge that the Western child's social con-ditioning hides from her, even as the visiting observer. Until we confront, head-on, the compelling issue of subtly changing the perceptions and attitudes of parents to a new, restructured educational model, we'll condemn ourselves to forever operate under the old one. This could be the first fully wired administration.