Re: Pakistan to ban encryption software

sid wrote:
On 01/09/11 10:18, Norman Wells wrote:
Szymon von Ulezalka wrote:
All anyone needs if they wish to use VPN is permission, which will
be granted if they _need_ to use it.

ah. good to know that bureaucracy will decide about it.

Why not? It's what we elect governments to do about all manner of
things.
If they don't need to use it, the
question has to be asked why then do they _want_ to use it.

why do you lock your door? nobody broke in (yet)?

I take _ordinary_ precautions. If I suddenly started putting steel
bars on all the windows and made my house like a fortress, wouldn't
it be reasonable to assume I had something out of the ordinary, and
probably illegal, that I wanted to protect?

no legitimate
need to use it, for example inhibiting terrorist or criminal
communication, then that seems to me to outweigh the minor interest
that others have in using it.

sorry- but if i wanna to use it, than my will is legitimate to me.

That's not down to you. It's down to the law.

If you had a gun, would you still say "if i wanna to use it, than my
will is legitimate to me" or would you accept that there could be
reasonable laws to make that illegal?


Not if you had people trying to break in, ALL the time, which is what
happens on the internet.

Ordinary precautions deal with ordinary situations. VPN is not an ordinary solution. It is an extraordinary one that excites suspicion about what the user is trying so desperately to conceal. What do you think are the main things people who use it are trying to conceal?

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    ... Szymon von Ulezalka wrote: ... good to know that bureaucracy will decide about it. ... all the windows and made my house like a fortress, wouldn't it be reasonable to assume I had something out of the ordinary, and probably illegal, that I wanted to protect? ... If you had a gun, would you still say "if i wanna to use it, than my will is legitimate to me" or would you accept that there could be reasonable laws to make that illegal? ...
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    ... On 01/09/11 10:18, Norman Wells wrote: ... good to know that bureaucracy will decide about it. ... that I wanted to protect? ... reasonable laws to make that illegal? ...
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