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- From: ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter)
- Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.222719.27068@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org> <1992Nov11.163215.29116@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:27:19 GMT
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- In <1992Nov11.163215.29116@news.eng.convex.com> gardner@convex.com
- (Steve Gardner) writes:
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- > I don't have to defend cryptography to anyone.
-
- Not now, no. Someday it may be too late to try.
-
-
- >The point
- > isn't that they won't outlaw cryptography but that it won't
- > do any good for what they think they are trying to do.
-
- The point is that such a law could put you in jail if you cross it.
- Any view that such a law would not be good for society must be
- *made*, and not just *assumed*.
-
-
- > The problem here is that people are assuming that the law
- > enforcement types know something about computers. NOTHING
- > could be further from the truth. My 10 year old daughter
- > knows more about computers than the D.A.
-
- Long ago, and far away, a guy I knew in high school had the same
- idea. He was selling dope out of his house and "dating" the
- underage daughter of a local muckety-muck when she got off school
- every day. He said, "What can her old man do about it?" He said,
- "The police couldn't find their a__." The last I heard, he was a
- "three time loser" doing hard time in the state pen.
-
- Betting your future on the incompetence of authority is a fool's
- bet.
-
- ---
- Terry Ritter ritter@cactus.org
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