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- From: linnoise@bigboy (LineNoise)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Cryptology and criminals
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.045922.8396@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 04:59:22 GMT
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- Why must things be taken to extremes? Technology that is primarily used to
- bring harm to people or avoid law enforcement agencies should be limited in
- their distribution and monitored closely. We don't want offensive nuclear
- capability to spread to unstable nations or handguns to be given to people
- with a history of violent crime(s) or mental instability. On the other hand
- we want to keep the right to bear arms and use them in self defense and promote
- the use of nuclear technology when it comes to non-destructive purposes. The
- same holds with cryptography-- limit it so that the abuse by criminals and
- other hostile bodies will have the capability to misuse it. Allow only those
- encryption methods defeatable by the law enforcement agencies to distributed
- and outlaw the distribution of more powerful methods. And enforce laws that
- will help protect the common man's privacy from those who have no business in
- decrypting his data.
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