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The privacy Problem and Encryption - Readings and Exercise To answer these questions effectively, you will need to read the following pieces on the Dear Habermas Site:

Grass Roots and Public Discourse: Privacy on the Net
European Concern Over Privacy in Data Collection

And you will need to read from the text, Wendy Grossman's net.wars:

Chapters 4 and 5, pp.42-69.

Answer the following questions by choosing the best answer:

1. Privacy

   1. is not a problem if you have a good encryption program.
   2. protection on computers in the U.S. has encountered problems because the government wants a key to every encryption program.
   3. on computers in the U.S. is amongst the best in the world.
   4. statements that assure users of how collected data are published on every site that collects data.
   5. on the Web is mostly about people's fear that the business that uses their credit card number might sell it to other businesses.

2. Explain in 25 words or less why the U.S. is opposed to strong encryption.

3. Public key encryption works

   1. by giving the government one key to keep and keeping the other key yourself.
   2. by giving one key to a friend and keeping the other key yourself.
   3. by giving one key to your friends and keeping the other key safely hidden.
   4. by making one key public to verify that it is you who sent the message, and by keeping the other key secret so that only the ones you give that key to can read it.
   5. a and d

4. In 25 words or less what software is the best solution to privacy through encryption at this point in time? Is it legal?

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