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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.223042.15115@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:30:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.002347.19216@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >In any case, the goverment may choose not to prosecute model makers
- >but that's no assurance they won't prosecute crypto issues,
- >particularly given their concern about those issues and the much
- >greater damage secure cryptography can do to intelligence collection,
- >compared to the damage from airplane models.
- The only intelligence collection damaged by secure cryptography
- in the hands of citizens is intelligence collection that shouldn't
- be done. You make it seem as if other governments would be deterred.
- Of course not. Governments, which are the "legitimate" targets of
- our spies can use secure cryptography with ABSOLUTELY NO FEAR OF
- PROSECUTION. It is the unfortunate citizens of our incipient
- police state that have to fear prosecution. The war being conducted
- these days is not against foreign powers but against the citizens.
- Anything that gives the citizen an edge in that war is GOOD.
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