X-No-Wiretap

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by antimatter15 • 13 years ago

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codex• 13 years ago

Would terrorists really abstain from forging this out of fear of penalty for purjury? And why would I give up all my anonymity on the Internet just to prevent the NSA from accidentally capturing my traffic?

jdiez17• 13 years ago

It's satire.

dexen• 13 years ago

It's a double satire, actually. The obvious level is the infeasibility, in the good old style of http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514 `Evil Bit'.

At the other, darker and more nefarious level are the proposals of national electronic ID, being put forth every once in a while. A government-issued ID would be the mandated ID for official and semi-official transactions. It's easy to imagine that any communication not signed with such ID would be subject to extra scrutiny, and possibly treated as exempt from legal protections.

yuhong• 13 years ago

I remember the "American Bit" or similar that was mentioned in Ars comments.

math0ne• 13 years ago

I assume this is a joke, but really though, interesting concept.

X-No-Wiretap

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