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- From: whg@inel.gov (Bill Gray)
- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.144924.7147@inel.gov>
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- Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho
- References: <1992Nov11.151529.14633@cci632.cci.com> <1992Nov11.214859.26168@adobe.com> <lg5gu8INN1m9@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov13.190219.24894@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:49:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.190219.24894@dg-rtp.dg.com>, meyers@leonardo.rtp.dg.com (Bill Meyers) writes:
- |> In article <lg5gu8INN1m9@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> williamt@athena.Eng.sun.com (Dances with Drums) writes:
- |> [ ... ]
- |> > As for registering keys...why do law enforcement officials think
- |> >they have a right to know what I am saying to another person. It seems
- |> >like this is an infringement on *freedom* of expression -- if my expression
- |> >to another person *must* be subject to monitoring, is it really free?
- |>
- |>
- |> Well, I've had a closer look --
- |>
- |> AMENDMENT I
- |> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
- |> of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
- |> or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; [etc.]
- |> ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^
- |> -- and it's perfectly clear that what they _meant_ was your freedom
- |> to make a speech, e.g., when trying to get elected to public office.
- |> There's nothing in there about other modes of communication, and
- |> _certainly_ nothing about keeping secrets from the Government!
-
- I suggest that the first ammendment will stand up no better than the fourth
- and fifth. The gov't will simply invoke civil forfeiture against those who
- use cryptographic methods to conceal what it wants to see. There is nothing
- illegal about having a lot of cash on your person, but that hasn't stopped
- various LE agencies from seizing same. Just so, using encryption could be
- seen as justification for forfeiture.
-
- "Verdict first, trial later."
- -- The Red Queen
-
- Followups to alt.privacy; I don't read sci.crypt (it's beyond my feeble
- math)
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