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- From: ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter)
- Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.222517.26931@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org> <ARI.HUTTUNEN.92Nov11145925@cardhu.cs.hut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:25:17 GMT
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- In <ARI.HUTTUNEN.92Nov11145925@cardhu.cs.hut.fi> Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi
- (Ari Huttunen) writes:
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- >How do you know he indeed is the molester if all you have is
- >an enciphered *something* and lot's of suspicion? What if the
- >enciphered *something* is a pile of old love letters? In this
- >case you would sentence an innocent man to prison for molesting.
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- I assume that the police would have some reason to so believe.
- These kind of cases are always difficult; the question: "Did he
- touch you--down there?" can mean different things to adults and
- children. Then the adults can become irrational, and then that
- will influence the kids.
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- But choose your own worst case. We are discussing arguments which
- could be used to lead to laws limiting the use of cryptography.
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- >I always thought a man is innocent until proven guilty...
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- The issue under discussion is the possibility that a future
- society could regard hiding information, after due process,
- as a crime in itself.
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- Terry Ritter ritter@cactus.org
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