![]() ![]() Cryptography and gloves are both dirt-cheap and widely available. The former can frustrate FBI wiretapping, and the latter can thwart FBI fingerprint analysis. ![]() Cryptography protects data from hackers, corporate spies, and con artists, whereas gloves protect hands from cuts, scrapes, heat, cold, and infection. Cryptography is a data-protection technology, just as gloves are a hand-protection technology. citizen can freely buy a pair of gloves, even though a burglar might use them to ransack a house without leaving fingerprints. “Ron Rivest, one of the inventors of RSA, thinks that restricting cryptography would be foolhardy: It is poor policy to clamp down indiscriminately on a technology just because some criminals might be able to use it to their advantage. ![]()
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