Is the Irish governments example of allowing self-censorship of the net the way to go?
I think it’s a misconception to link the net censoring itself – which is one sort of organic lifeform – with the best way to catch criminals. The best way to catch criminals is to understand the medium they use. With this potential new law in the UK criminals are going to want to use cryptography because they know that if they get caught doing something really bad, they can always refuse to give you their key and they’ve got a maximum of two years. Whereas your law abiding citizens are actually going to be discouraged from using it in case they forget their password. The Irish have kind of got it, as have the Americans… over here we just haven’t. Are you excited by new developments like Wap? I work with a big European broadband player and the web is just another platform – albeit the biggest at the moment. When you start looking at doing stuff on TV and Wap platforms you realise how radical this internet business actually is. I wouldn’t like to guess a time-scale but there will come
