4.9.1. "How can we get more people to use crypto?" - telling them about the themes of Cypherpunks - surveillance, wiretapping, Digital Telephony, Clipper, NSA, FinCEN, etc....these things tend to scare a lot of folks - making PGP easier to use, better integration with mailers, etc. - (To be frank, convincing others to protect themselves is not one of my highest priorities. Then why have I written this megabyte-plus FAQ? Good question. Getting more users is a general win, for obvious reasons.) 4.9.2. "Who needs to encrypt?" + Corporations - competitors...fax transmissions + foreign governments - Chobetsu, GCHQ, SDECE, Mossad, KGB + their own government - NSA intercepts of plans, investments + Activist Groups - Aryan Nation needs to encrypt, as FBI has announced their intent to infiltrate and subvert this group - RU-486 networks - Amnesty International + Terrorists and Drug Dealers - clearly are clueless at times (Pablo Escobar using a cellphone!) - Triads, Russian Mafia, many are becoming crypto-literate - (I've been appoached-'nuff said) + Doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, etc. - to preserve records against theft, snooping, casual examination, etc. - in many cases, a legal obligation has been attached to this (notably, medical records) - the curious situation that many people are essentially _required_ to encrypt (no other way to ensure standards are met) and yet various laws exists to limit encryption...ITAR, Clipper, EES - (Clipper is a partial answer, if unsatisfactory) 4.9.3. "When should crypto be used?" - It's an economic matter. Each person has to decide when to use it, and how. Me, I dislike having to download messages to my home machine before I can read them. Others use it routinely.
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