over the Fourth of July, I guess our break was taken a little bit differently. Due to circumstances of a personal matter in both my wife's family and my family, we did not get to spend as much time in our home State of Montana as we would have liked. Generally, a couple rides on an airplane, but basically we drove across this Nation, across the heartland of this Nation, all the way from the Rocky Mountains back to Washington, DC. But I flew into California. We were talking yesterday about the encryption issue, an issue that allows people to encode their messages that are sent on the information highway and that there is some reliance that those messages are only received by the folks they are intended for, and when the folks receive those messages, they have confidence that it was sent by the right person and the message has not been tinkered with before they received it. That happens to be something in this new technology, this information age, that we will be talking a lot about.
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Discussing encryption and technology during a personal reflection on travel.
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