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Posted by Todd H. on July 9, 2008, 2:40 pm
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> I used encryption back in 2007, when covering the Winter
> Asian Games, in China, and the Chinese authorities never
> got wise to what I was up to.
How can you be certain of that? Or perhaps they just chose not to go
after you in lieu of other things?
> There was no POSSIBLE way they could have EVER found out I was using
> Skype to take calls to my talk show while I was there to cover the
> Winter Asian Games. A double encrypted encryption scheme like I will
> be using cannot be analysed, monitored, cracked, or sniffed.
Those are tall claims. Prove it. (hint: you can't)
But you're missing a larger point as usual.
While encryption is a fine way to try to hide your activities and it
can be very effective at doing so or at least making the effort
involved rather tall, you shouldn't kid yourself--encryption can also
be a great way to attract attention. It doesn't take a genius to
identify an encrypted data stream. It's quite easy and there
automated tools to do so.
So, don't be foolish enough to make the Yankee mistake of assuming the
laws and justice system is the same when your butt is in a foreign
country as it is when yer here.
For instance, if use of encryption itself is illegal, they don't need
to know what's going on in your encrypted tunnel to haul you in. I'll
leave the investigation on the laws of encryption use in China as an
exercise to the reader.
Best Regards,
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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