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- From: bvickers@valentine.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
- Subject: Re: Key registration proposal in CACM
- Nntp-Posting-Host: valentine.ics.uci.edu
- Message-ID: <2B0D3C19.15571@ics.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Reply-To: bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:27:21 GMT
- References: <1eg9gqINN9u0@hal.com> <1egrl5INN1ig@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov20.000008.13739@advtech.uswest.com>
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- huntting@advtech.uswest.com (Brad Huntting) writes:
- >The government is not our freind. It doesn't protect the inocent and
- >it doesn't punish the well to do. Trusting the government with your
- >privacy is alot like trusting a kleptomaniac to house sit for you.
-
- Even if one had forgotten every instance in which the government has
- stepped on individual privacy in the past, one would have to look only
- so far back as the election-time State Department passport scandal to
- be reminded that the government can rarely be entrusted with issues of
- personal privacy. If that's not plain-as-day evidence that proposals
- to regulate cryptography are just plain stupid, I don't know what is.
-
- --
- Brett J. Vickers
- bvickers@ics.uci.edu
-