Privacy From Whom?
September, 1994
You may be intimidated by your personal computer now and then. But your government is even more scared by it, and that has led to a recent initiative that threatens your First Amendment rights.The government is nervous because the average personal computer, equipped with inexpensive software, can code communications and data so well that even the National Security Agency's supercomputers would find it difficult or impossible to decode them. If this technology, called encryption, becomes widely u...
