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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
- In-Reply-To: ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.133951.26570@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:39:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org>, ritter@cactus (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.
-
- To do this, there's a need to take away these magic words like "child
- molesters", "pornography", "drug users", "child pornography" and so
- on.
-
- In Finland I think I would have little trouble with this example, as
- "child molester" is not one of the magic words here. Neither is
- "pornography" or "child pornography". "Drugs" is, and even that's an
- import from USA. In USA, you can legally steal all possessions from
- anyone if you say the magic word "drugs" - in Finland you can keep
- someone arrested a couple of days. "Family values" is a recent
- example of a magic word that didn't work in USA. Something quite like
- it did work in Germany a few dozen years ago.
-
- The magic words only work if we let them. Break the spell of the
- magic words.
-
- Followups directed out of sci.crypt.
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- //Jyrki
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