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- From: WHMurray@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
- Subject: New Administration and Crypto Regulation
- Message-ID: <921110234334.934244@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
- Sender: WHMurray.ISSA@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
- Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:43:00 GMT
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- >I predict that unless a key registration law is "sneaked in" there's
- >going to be a bitter public battle over this issue during the current
- >Clinton administration. Hone your arguments and your
- >intervention/lobbying/testimony techniques now, whatever side of this
- >you're on.
-
- You had better be vigilant, diligent, and skilled. My sources tell me
- that the bureaucracy is determined to win this one. They believe that
- the issue is bigger than any administration, but they expect both the
- Clinton administration and the new congress to be sympathetic.
-
- Notice that Dr. Denning has far the easier case to argue. All she has
- to do is keeping pointing out that she is on the side of "LE."
- Nevermind that that is irrelevant. Nevermind that her proposals will
- not help LE. She is on the right side, the side of the angels. Her
- arguments are both politically correct and on the side of the death
- penalty. How can she loose? Who cares? A bunch of gun nuts and other
- libertarian flakes? Who can even understand? Nevermind that there is
- no problem, DDD has a solution. The solution is both politically and
- technically correct. It favors BOTH law enforcement and
- national security. It is favored by the DoJ, the DoD, the NSA and the
- FBI. What else does any congressman have to know?
-
- Perhaps I underestimate the American people; even my sixteen year old
- Goddaughter saw the mischief in this proposal without anyone pointing it
- out to her. But one relies upon an uninstructed congress at one's peril.
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- When we succeeded in getting the language taken out of Senate 266, we
- thought that we had seen the last of it. It has since shown up in at
- least three bills. It will continue to be proposed over and over; it
- will not die. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-
- William Hugh Murray, Executive Consultant, Information System Security
- 49 Locust Avenue, Suite 104, New Canaan, Connecticut 06840
- 203 966 4769, WHMurray at DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
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