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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: the Right of Privacy
- Message-ID: <1dv4hrINNorg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:39:55 GMT
- References: <1992Oct28.111437.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov2.020648.27527@qualcomm.com> <1992Nov12.063300.12408@seanews.akita.com>
- Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
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- Others said
- # A man writes love-letters to his mistress. He encrypts them so that
- # neither his wife nor her husband can read them. Is he required to
- # submit his key and encryption system to the government just in case
- # the government ever decides he might be guilty of something?
-
- The obvious extension:
- Angry wife starts CIVIL action to get the key.
- (After all, we are seeing a vast increase in the use of the civil
- category for everything from parking tickets to cash confiscation.)
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