Bill C-47

www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Public...Mode=1&File=32#1

This Bill will force ISPs to collect and decrypt all your personal infomation on the internet and give it to law enforcement agencies, foreign jurisdiction and unincorporated organizations.


Bill C-67

www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Public...Mode=1&File=27#1

372. (1) Every one who, with intent to injure or alarm any person, conveys or causes or procures to be conveyed by letter, telegram, telephone, cable, radio or otherwise information that he knows is false is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.n.

This worries me because it sounds so vague. I'd hate to be put in jail for communicating my politcal beliefs just because some one found it alarming. Canada already has harassment laws so I can't see any good reason for this.

Regardless of the intent or the "law". No-one can decrypt you personal info without your private "keys". Once only an RSA encoded message was cracked using super computers but only because the "decoders" guessed that the computer clock was used to generate the random number used in key generation. They searched around using all clock times near the key generation. I know of no ISP's with access to super computers nor with the resources to decode my grocery list if I encrypt it using PGP.

A minor practical consideration.

Phil, the bill states that ISP are required to decrypt whatever they have encrypted, they would not to be forced to break into data which was encrypted before they got it (that is up to law enforcement, who could have super computer access)

But other than a on secure websites, who actually used encryption? Well over 99% of emails and other transmissions can be read in plain text by the ISP. Encryption can be very secure and is a great tool against these 'big brother' activities, but I still think we should continue fighting against this type of legislation.

As far as encryption integrity, RSA with a big key seems very secure today, but it can still be cracked eventually, it's just a matter of time.

It is also a matter of volume. When you consider the number of emails and on-line purchases per day plus the time taken to read messages it is nonsense to fear routine monitoring. The famous "V-chip" was once proposed to monitor computer users.

The biggest fear should be from people silly enough to use windoze as their O/S. there is so much spyware out there, that one should be scared of identity theft not of "big brother".

AI will never be able to spot significant information, when it can't distinguish been <"Twilight New Moon" was a bomb>. From <"I am planning to bomb the PMO">

The tiny minds of the Harper Government who believe the earth is 6,000 years old is not a big threat. The Aussies have become a laughing stock for their tiny minds on censoring the net.