Law enforcement agencies have both the financial resources and scientific technology to overcome that possibility. Until the Internet, itself, can guarantee relative security Internet is not going to become a really serious medium. We re seeing more and more pressure now, not only from government, but from information-heavy industries to say, We ve got to have some rules of the road. Some of that is going to be encryption and that s one of the fights going on now. Recently the FBI released statistics saying that major crime decreased another 7 percent last year, one of the largest one-year declines in history.
Strong encryption is already available free on the Internet.
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