TSGL: Do we regard our PCs as gods? (was encryption question)

Geoff Glave misterclever at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 10 11:57:21 EDT 2008



> Do we too easily, too quickly, give up? Do we think that because the
> computer says so, it must be so? Do we regard the computer more highly than
> we regard ourselves, our intellects, our capabilities?

We do when the task impossible.  Imagine we used your lock box analogy, but we then sealed the box up and threw it into the mouth of an active volcano, and it sunk into the lava.

This is the nature of encryption.  If there was a means to decrypt an encrypted file, then encryption wouldn't be any good.



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