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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!billmcc
- From: billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick)
- Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
- Organization: SEANEWS - Seattle Public Access News & Mail
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:03:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.070339.12698@seanews.akita.com>
- References: <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org>
- Lines: 92
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- In article <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org> ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter) writes:
- > The police bust an alleged child molester, and take possession
- > of his PC. They believe that the hard drive contains a full
- > database of young kids who have been *or may be* assaulted.
- > That database is enciphered.
- >
- > Now, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to defend
- > cryptography to ordinary voters, congress people and newspaper
- > reporters. You also need to explain to a relative of one of those
- > kids, someone who doesn't own or work with a computer, why the
- > government should "allow" private cryptography which could hide
- > this sort of information.
-
- ===
-
- The police bust an alleged child molester, and take possession
- of his safe. They believe that the safe contains a full
- list of young kids who have been *or may be* assaulted. The
- safe is locked.
-
- Now, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to defend
- locksmithing to ordinary voters, congress people and newspaper
- reporters. You also need to explain to a relative of one of those
- kids, someone who doesn't own or work with a safe, why the
- government should "allow" private locks which could hide
- this sort of information.
-
- ===
-
- The police bust an alleged child molester, and take possession
- of his records. They believe his records contain a full
- list of young kids who have been *or may be* assaulted. The
- records are written on paper in a strange language no one has
- seen before. The alleged child molester claims that it is
- in Pre-Babylonian prune-trading language, and he is the only
- person left alive who knows it.
-
- Now, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to defend
- historical linguistics to ordinary voters, congress people and newspaper
- reporters. You also need to explain to a relative of one of those
- kids, someone who doesn't own or work with a computer, why the
- government should "allow" someone to study historical languages which
- could hide
-
- ===
-
- The police bust an alleged child molester, and attempt to
- take possession of his records, but before they could -- he
- flushed them down the toilet.
-
- Now, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to defend
- toilets to ordinary voters, congress people and newspaper
- reporters. You also need to explain to a relative of one of those
- kids, someone who doesn't own or work with a toilet, why the
- government should "allow" private toilets which could hide
- this sort of information.
-
- ===
-
- The police bust an alleged child molester, and try to take possession
- of his records. They believe that he has a full list of young kids
- who have been *or may be* assaulted. Unfortunately he didn't write
- anything down and maintains the list in his head.
-
- Now, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to defend
- personal thoughts to ordinary voters, congress people and newspaper
- reporters. You also need to explain to a relative of one of those
- kids, someone who doesn't own or work with a brain, why the
- government should "allow" people to keep public records.
-
- ===
-
- The police bust an alleged child molester, and try to take
- possession of his PC. They believe that the hard drive contains a full
- database of young kids who have been *or may be* assaulted. The PC
- has been hidden.
-
- Now, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to defend
- the right to keep property to ordinary voters, congress people and newspaper
- reporters. You also need to explain to a relative of one of those
- kids, someone who doesn't own or work with private property, why the
- government should "allow" private property which could be moved without
- government permission and used to hide this sort of information.
-
- ===
-
- Just some thoughts
-
- Bill
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