The solution to FISA.

[gorfle]

There is a simple solution to FISA: Universal, ubiquitous encryption.

The American people will never rise to defeat FISA. Most don't know what it does. Most people have no idea that our government is monitoring most electronic communications, from phone calls, to web browsing, to email.

If you told Americans that the government was steaming open all their mail and reading it, there would be outrage. But people don't realize that this is precisely what is happening to all their electronic communications.

Why doesn't the government steam open everyone's mail and read it? Simple: It's far too much work cracking open ALL the mail in the hopes of reading a few juicy tidbits.

But electronic eavesdropping is easy when you get the major telecom companies to give you access to the main trunk lines.

And the reason why it's easy is because most data is passing through in the clear - unencrypted.

This needs to change. It's not going to change by policy or outrage, so it has to change in the tools that we use every day. If EVERY website was encrypted, not just financial or other sensitive web sites, it would make eavesdropping ENORMOUSLY more difficult as the computing power to crack all encrypted traffic would be enormous. Same thing if we made it so ALL phone calls were encrypted. Same thing if we made all EMAILS encrypted.

What can you do? Start encrypting all your outgoing email. Google for PGP. When your friends complain they can't read your email, direct them to encryption software.

Do you run a web site? Direct your http: to https:.

If most data was encrypted FISA would be a waste of time.

[Ytzak]

1. The solution to FISA is the removal and replacment of all our

elected representatives. If they voted for the FISA bill we must vote aginst them.

It is time to take the country back.

[gorfle]

3. Won't happen.

Since most people don't know what FISA is or does, you are never going to generate enough outrage to ouster politicians on this issue.

We must use technology to fight the system instead.

[Ytzak]

6. Just because it won't happen does not mean its not the solution.

When a people are betrayed by their government, removing the government is the only solution. By allowing Democrats or Republicans to hold on to power we condone their actions, we reward them for betrayal.

The net result may be that the United States that has been all but destroyed by Bush and the Republicans has been finished off by the Democrats.

[Hydra]

2. You can try

But I bet they've already cracked 3des, blowfish and other algorithms.

By all means, encrypt and stentograph, but NEVER assume what you are sending is unbreakable.

[gorfle]

4. No doubt.

Most encryption is breakable, given enough time.

Today, encrypted traffic stands out like a sore thumb, so they can bring decrypting tools to bear easily on suspect traffic.

Ever everything was encrypted, this would get a lot harder to do.

[Hydra]

5. There is a LOT of encrypted traffic actually

Which makes me think they can shred it on the fly(and with computers capable of sifting real-time data loads like those going through AT&T, you can bet they have others just like it used for that purpose).

[Cleita]

7. I was just thinking the same thing that we are going to have to start

communicating in code, a code only known to a few who are in on it.