At 2:00 AM -0400 on 8/9/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Title: Ontario Promotes Private Crypto > Resource Type: News Article > Date: 3:00 a.m. 6.Aug.99.PDT > Source: Wired News > Author: Matt Friedman > Keywords: GOVT POLICY ,ENCRYPTION ,ADVOCACY ,PERSONAL PROTECT > > Abstract/Summary: > While the US Congress recoils in horror at the prospect of a >population armed with > cryptographic tools, a government department in Ontario wants to >make it clear that > encryption is good. > > More than that, in a paper released Thursday, the Ontario >Information and Privacy > Commission said it wants everyone to learn to use encryption. > > "What we need is a shift in the mindset of how to use information," >said Ann Cavoukian, > Ontario's privacy commissioner. "A lot of people still think that >their email is safe from > prying eyes or tampering. That's not true. We have to protect >ourselves, and we have to > know how to use the tools.... We have to get that message out." > > Original URL: >http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/politics/story/21140.html?wnpg >=all > > Added: Sun Aug 8 22:41:23 -040 1999 > Contributed by: Keeffee ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
