At this point, we reach a critical decision with respect to security and the Government's involvement. As long as there are back doors or limits, the bad guys get in. The bad guys are always better at breaking in than we are at protecting our information. However, we must make encryption and tamper detection widely available to close the back doors. If the Government is concerned with National Security and not Government access, this should be a simple proposition.
Network security is trivial to break.
The information and tools to do so are widely available on the Internet, so even young and relatively unsophisticated users can break past your network security. And when data is accidentally exposed on a public server, that information is even easier to get. Hastily implemented e-commerce applications can send private data to publicly readable directories. The L.A. Times downloaded more than 100 pages of credit card numbers, travel reservations, e-mail, and other information from the Web. The Times went on to report that, had the data been encrypted, its accidental presence on a public site would not have been problematic.