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- Subject: Re: Cryptology and criminals
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.180450.57@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- From: jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (jason 'Think!' steiner)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:04:49 EST
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- linnoise@bigboy (LineNoise) writes:
- > The same holds with cryptography-- limit it so that the abuse by
- > criminals and other hostile bodies will have the capability to
- > misuse it. ^
- do you want a "not" in here? how do
- you propose to enforce this? the same
- way it's "worked" (actually -not- worked)
- for guns?
-
- > Allow only those encryption methods defeatable by the law
- > enforcement agencies to distributed and outlaw the distribution of
- > more powerful methods.
-
- again, how do you enforce this? "more powerful methods" are already
- out. should we censor Scientific American? sounds very much like
- a police state to me. and it -still- wouldn't work.
-
- > And enforce laws that will help protect the common man's privacy
- > from those who have no business in decrypting his data.
-
- sorry, the police are under -no- obligation to protect you, much less
- your data. not only that, but they're already overworked & often
- incapable of enforcing the silly laws we've given them. i have a -lot-
- of respect for most law enforcement officers, but even they will admit
- that we're living in a world where pizza gets to your house faster
- than the police. laws don't protect people (or data). -people-
- protect people (and data). take away the individual's ability to protect
- themselves & we'll see a society where no one is safe from "those who
- have no business in decrypting his data". 99% of the time, that includes
- the government.
-
- jason
-
- --
- sorry, my .signature is on strike.
-