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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: PGP and real criminals
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.212627.28380@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:26:27 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.092807.13613@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1ej1fsINN5ad@morrow.stanford.edu>
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- In article <1ej1fsINN5ad@morrow.stanford.edu> castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU (Castor Fu) writes:
- >With all the talk about "suspected" child molesters, etc. I thought I
- >would bring up one point. How do people feel about restricting cryptographic
- >privileges of people once they have been convicted of a particular
- >set of crimes?
- Impossible to enforce. Such restrictions don't even work with
- guns and guns are somewhat controled. Computers are not purchased
- only from "licensed dealers" like guns are.
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- smg
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