EnRUPT – The Simpler The Better

Congratulations, Nevada!

We are very pleased to see an intelligent government leading the way for everyone else into the 21^st century, the age of information. As of the 1^st of October, the state of Nevada will require businesses to encrypt their internet communications.

What is the worst crime to commit in any country, a crime so bad that it is punished worse than murder? – It is high treason, incomparable with petty treason, an aggravated form of murder. Sending an unencrypted e-mail is as good as as adding to it BCC: NSA and BCC: Other Foreign Agencies. Thus by sending unencrypted e-mails or messages, you are committing the worst crime there is, treason, as you are sharing all your correspondence with the foreign intelligence agencies. That is not counting your gross negligence of allowing hackers and everyone else see your messages.

The Vedas teach us that stupidity is a sin. We cannot plead ignorance under the mask of naiveté forever without getting punished for it. When one commits a crime, one is responsible and punishable even if one is unaware of having done anything wrong. All our e-mails and instant messages are thoroughly scanned, analysed and recorded by a number of agencies as well as the countless hackers, and as surveys show, by dangerously irresponsible ISP employees.

All the initial difficulties of enforcing the new law aside, the US State of Nevada is the first to make the key step towards prevention of hacking and digital espionage: enforcing encryption of all the business traffic. Well done!

I implore all the governments in the world to follow this lead and to enforce strong encryption of business communications in your countries as soon as possible. The benefits of preventing the damage from the industrial and government espionage, hacking, worms, viruses, trojans and other malware, by far outweighs the losses from inability to intercept communications of the dumbest few of the criminals and terrorists, most of whom use strong encryption anyway.

Abusus non tollit usum