Everybody likes words with 'Crypt-' in them

Cryptobiont, cryptozoology, etc.

Recently, a friend and I had a debate: He insisted that if the
government had the need, it could decrypt any data - that
nothing was fully secure. While I had to concede to the second
part, I didn't entirely agree with the first.

If I had some data, and used the 63kb application Bcrypt to
encrypt it (using a very strong 56 character password) - it's
doubtful that the file could be decrypted. Maybe partially,
but secure passwords can go a long way if you have good
encryption algorithms. Bcrypt provides 448-bit encryption!

"There are two kinds of cryptography in this world:
cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading
your files, and cryptography that will stop major
governments from reading your files. This book is
about the latter."
-- Preface to Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier

On a (very) slightly related note, I happened across an
interesting article that talks about how US government
websites are constantly hacked. For example, 19 sites
were hacked in the last 27 days.