>Sure they can - they did before the internet. (No, the postal mail is not secure.)
It's several orders of magnitude more secure than plain http.
>Besides, the effect on economic development in the short term will be almost unnoticable.
India has to be chock full of nationalistic script kiddies and legitimate hackers who will have a field day wrecking Pakistan's online economy if they actually try to implement this plan.
As well they should. It's one thing to use your leet skillz on some bigco with the vague self-important notion that the man is oppressing the peepz, but how often do they get to go up against real, genuine Bad with a big b.
It's several orders of magnitude more secure than plain http.
>Besides, the effect on economic development in the short term will be almost unnoticable.
India has to be chock full of nationalistic script kiddies and legitimate hackers who will have a field day wrecking Pakistan's online economy if they actually try to implement this plan.