Network World : Waging crypto wars 2.0

"I was drawn to security in the early 90s during the crypto battle against the U.S. government, which was trying to force companies to adopt broken encryption with built in backdoors, like the failed Clipper Chip. Fortunately, the crypto wars were won by the side of reason, not least because of activists hoarding crypto technology in offshore locations. Today we all enjoy strong, unbreakable, backdoor-free encryption as a result of the 90s crypto battle. That battle is about to begin again as the U.S. government proposes to introduce backdoors, by design fiat, into commercial communications security systems. They were wrong then and they are wrong now but the stakes are much higher this time. " ~ Andreas M. Antonopoulos

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2010/100610antonopoulos.html?hpg1=bn

For those of us who fear a "Big Brother" taking over, this would be one of the ways for it to be done. Most of us do not even think about it. It seems to me that the Democrats want to create and be "Big Brother", and the Republicans just want to act that way. Neither side has been getting security right, and it is definitely a major no-no to create a purposeful backdoor into all systems. Right now at least we are more secure because the systems have different holes. If we allow this to happen we are just asking for a full scale cyber attack. This will not make us more secure, in the end it will be less.