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- From: karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: PGP - Legal?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.004107.25668@qualcomm.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 00:41:07 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qualcomm.1993Jan4.004107.25668
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- In article <1993Jan3.193639.1398@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >As to PGP, it is in the realm of possibility that if the U.S.
- >Government wished and knew about it, he can be accused of
- >espionage and expelled.
-
- Espionage? For obtaining unclassified information that is very widely
- and readily available to anyone in the US? And outside too? First
- there was NSA's brief threat to prosecute John Gilmore for what he
- found in a public library. Now this. My, what a country we live in.
- With constitutional democracies like ours, who needs fascist
- dictatorships?
-
- Dave, you'd better start rehearsing your confirmation hearings.
- You're a sure candidate for the Supreme Court the next time a
- Republican takes the White House.
-
- Phil
-