Comcast will be issuing up to two adapters to each subscriber at no charge for up to two years, assuming you request your equipment within four months of the date of encryption.

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Many members of Congress feel that these rules, which are followed by many governments, are now out of date and indeed pointless, as encryption software is being developed all around the world.

BBC: Paul Reynolds, BBC Washington Correspondent

Many observers have suggested defensive techniques that deploy TrueCrypt disk encryption with hidden volume partitions or PGP Whole Disk Encryption rendering the entire computer unbootable thereby making even file time and date stamps unavailable.

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