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  1. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!news.uta.edu!utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!sneaky!gordon
  3. From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt)
  4. Subject: Re: the Right of Privacy
  5. Message-ID: <Bxtt3F.32K@sneaky.lonestar.org>
  6. Organization: Gordon Burditt
  7. References: <1992Oct28.111437.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov12.063300.12408@seanews.akita.com> <1992Nov12.202606.22666@cactus.org>
  8. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:33:07 GMT
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  11. > If government agents *have* a warrant, would an attempt to prevent
  12. > their entry into a house be considered "legal"?  Is secretly-held
  13.  
  14. Yes.  Attempts made to prevent their entry into the house *BEFORE*
  15. the warrant was presented are certainly legal.  Or did you intend
  16. to outlaw door locks?  Or doors?  Safes?  Walls with holes in them?
  17. Yards with dirt that you can bury something in?  I think encryption 
  18. falls into this category.  
  19.  
  20. Quickly encrypting the data when you hear the police demanding entry
  21. may be illegal (obstruction of justice, or some such charge).  Nobody
  22. does that anyway.  They destroy the evidence.
  23.  
  24.                     Gordon L. Burditt
  25.                     sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon
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