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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.012545.29228@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 01:25:45 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov13.012545.29228
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- In article <1992Nov12.230445.25742@cactus.org> ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter) writes:
- > Computer cryptography makes it possible for those who accumulate
- > information to avoid the due-process search which is expected
- > when people accumulate things.
- Good memory that is sufficiently selective during a trial
- makes it possible for those who accumulate information to
- avoid the due-process search which is expected when people
- accumulate things.
-
- Do you see what is wrong with this sentence? Think about it.
- Then . . . repeat after me: Information is not a thing.
- Information is not a thing.
-
- > The difference is that what was once rare and easily breached by
- > the authorities is now on its way to becoming common and
- > impenetrable. Cryptography really is different from a wall safe.
- It will still be impenetrable for law enforcement in the
- case of criminals. Unless you make the "crime" of an illegal
- encryption device (ie. a computer with th appropriate software)
- comparable to the most heavily punished felonies recognized by
- the law criminals commiting those felonies will use it and they will
- consider the risk quite acceptable. The only people who will be denied
- the right to some privacy from big brother will be decent
- law abiding citizens. I don't understand why you can't see
- this. Is it really that hard a concept?!?
-
-
- smg
-