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Originally Posted by ardeegee
It is easy for anyone to devise a security system that they aren't clever enough to figure out a way to hack-- the trick is to devise a security system that nobody else is clever enough to figure out to hack. The problem is, there are some very clever people out there (some of them successful SF writers.)
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It's
Schneier's Law:
"Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. It's not even hard. What is hard is creating an algorithm that no one else can break, even after years of analysis. And the only way to prove that is to subject the algorithm to years of analysis by the best cryptographers around."
But I'm sure Mr. Jordan has a solution involving government thugs and the death penalty for copyright infringement.