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- From: bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster)
- Subject: Re: A Copper Balloon
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.154441.1301@pages.com>
- Sender: bwebster@pages.com
- Reply-To: bwebster@pages.com
- Organization: Banzai Research Institute
- References: <1992Nov10.090133.1707@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:44:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.090133.1707@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- denning@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
- >
- > I am also not content to let society drift in the direction of completely
- > unregulated crypto without attempting to understand the consequences
- > of that from the view of LE as well as the view of protecting privacy
- > and proprietary interests.
- >
-
- 1) My observation over the past eleven years (which is when I first became
- aware of issues of cryptography) is that if we, as a society and a government,
- are "drifting" towards anything, it's towards regulated (and eviscerated)
- crypto-technology. The only real counterforce to that trend has been the
- efforts of various individuals and small groups to advance and distribute the
- technology, often in the face of subtle and overt pressure not to do so.
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- 2) Understanding the consequences is a simple though-experiment: imagine a
- postal service where neither the gov't nor anyone else had the right nor the
- power to read letters (though they might intercept it and delay or prevent its
- delivery). Might criminals avail themselves of such a system? Yes. Is that a
- serious enough problem to justify shutting down such a system or compromising
- its privacy? No, IMHO. ..bruce..
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- Bruce F. Webster | We hackers linger by our leading edge
- CTO, Pages Software Inc | Forgetting what is pending in the cache
- bwebster@pages.com | Till practice hurtles past us, and we crash.
- #import <pages/disclaimer.h> | -- Jeff Duntemann
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