Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> I have often wondered what might happen if someone released tools to make
> all currently available encryption algorithms easily breakable with a pc,
> quickly and easily...some chaos with banking and such would ensue possibly
> causing an economic catastrophe for a while. Would people just play with
Plato wrote a story about Gyges Ring.
this guy finds an ring of invisibility.
He then uses it to seduce the queen,
kill the king, and make himself king.
The argument is that people given some
powerful tool will, by default, use that
tool for their own benifit, and at anyone's
expense.
Hobbes said that the only way to maintain
a civilization was to have a government
powerful enough that they can completely
quash any kind of lawbreaking. If there
is not enough law enforcement to catch
criminals, and the punishments are not severe
enough, then people will break down into
chaos.
people are not to be trusted.
That's a very dark world you live in.
--
Greg London
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