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 Current mass-market communications technology is very insecure. User adoption rates for encryption of emails, instant messages, and phone calls are for all intents nil. Even the use of cookie-free, untraceable internet browsing is extremely low, despite its extreme ease. Legal protection for the privacy of such communications is scarcely any better. Witness, for example, the 2007 scandal wherein the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence committee was entrapped and blackmailed by a national intelligence agency seeking expanded surveillance powers. Authority for roaming, warrantless wiretaps has been claimed by presidents from both political parties. The dominant usage of technology in America has done much to destroy the expectations of privacy and secrecy that people enjoyed just a few decades ago. Might it be possible to convince people to take matters into their own hands?

I like to call my proposed solution the PATRIOT phone. It will look like this. It will feature RSA cryptography that is all but impossible to break, with no back doors or key escrow. With the right marketing strategy, a satisfactory product, and reasonable price points, it shouldn't be difficult to put such devices in the hands of several thousands of users. At that point, the device becomes an impediment to large scale surveillance. If even 1% of network traffic were encrypted, it would be impossible to capture that volume of traffic for cryptanalysis -- there simply aren't enough supercomputers.


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