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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!morrow.stanford.edu!drizzle.Stanford.EDU!castor
  2. From: castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU (Castor Fu)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  4. Subject: Re: PGP and real criminals
  5. Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:50:20 GMT
  6. Organization: Stanford University
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  8. Message-ID: <1ej1fsINN5ad@morrow.stanford.edu>
  9. References: <1992Nov20.092807.13613@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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  13. With all the talk about "suspected" child molesters, etc. I thought I
  14. would bring up one point. How do people feel about restricting cryptographic
  15. privileges of people once they have been convicted of a particular
  16. set of crimes?
  17.  
  18. It seems to me that  once a person has violated certain rules, e.g.
  19. child molestation, insider trading, etc.  one might restrict their
  20. access to tools which are particularly useful towards those ends,
  21. e.g. guns, crypto etc.
  22.  
  23. After all, in the case which is being discussed, hadn't this person
  24. been previously convicted of child molesting?
  25.  
  26. --
  27. Castor Fu, (foo@leland.stanford.edu)
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