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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.214803.29362@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:48:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.154947.26478@coop.com> felixg@coop.com (Felix Gallo) writes:
- >You're accidentally interpreting a missive from the government as
- >a code of ethics. Ethics come from the inside. I consider it
- >unethical to, for instance, monitor or record day-to-day communications
- >without a warrant or reason to suspect criminal activity -- yet the
- >NSA [reportedly] does this frequently. I also consider it unethical
- >to support dictatorial regimes, to trade American and Iraqi lives for
- >oil, to wage undeclared wars using illegally-obtained funds, and
- >to sell weapons of mass destruction on the global market. I do not
- >consider it unethical to communicate in a private fashion.
- Bravo!! Thank you for saying it.
-
- >No, the law that states
- >that mathematical algorithms can be patented is not a realistic nor
- >a fair law. No, the law that states that security of information is
- >limited to the government only is not a realistic nor a fair law.
- Bravo again.
-
-
- >We as individuals posting to these newsgroups are not, in general,
- >presidents of major international corporations or wealthy cryptoanalysis
- >enthusiasts. We're students, programmers, systems analysts, and computer
- >specialists.
- Just regular people. The people that we were mistakenly told
- own this country. Let's make sure we make our government live
- up to its promise. That, to me, takes more courage and more
- patriotism than dropping bombs on children in Iraq or Panama.
-
-
- >As such, we lack both the resources and the time to
- >challenge the government in the areas in which it is wrong; perhaps by
- >ignoring its unenforceable policies, we'll be able to build a groundswell
- >which will eventually overcome the ignorance evident in the high places
- >of our country.
- This needed saying so badly. Thank you.
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- smg
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