On a philosophical note I feel that the solution would be to stop doing things that create enemies. If a country does not have any enemies then their security concerns reduce radically. Crime is more a social issue. Terrorism is a political issue. I do not think that any amount of technology will address the problems caused by politicians.
The right to privacy and security of the individual should be the driving motivation of cyber-security. The individual should decide whether technology provided by their government, their industry, or by like minded persons provide them with the security levels they desire. The same applies to industry. Governments are very different. They use the resources, usually military, available to them to protect their own, usually military and commercial, interests. It is usually also to protect their own interests that they prescribe to their citizens. I personally would rather use private encryption that civil rights groups use rather than encryption provided by my government, or worse, provided by some other government. I strongly feel that NGOs, etc. should provide the people that they are assisting with apropriate cyber protection. Not necessarily the protection preferred or prescribed by some other government. It is naive to expect "bad persons" to not use the technology available to them. This has never happened in the history of mankind and will definitely not happen in the cyber age. The same problem of the good guys versus the bad continues, albeit with different tools. ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For the GKD database, with past messages: http://www.GKDknowledge.org
