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- Subject: Re: PGP and real criminals
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- From: john.eichler@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (John Eichler)
- Date: 22 Nov 92 06:38:00 GMT
- Reply-To: john.eichler@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (John Eichler)
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- In article: <1ej1fsINN5ad@morrow.stanford.edu> (Castor Fu) states:
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- >How do people feel about restricting cryptographic privileges of people
- once they have been convicted of a particular set of crimes?
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- >It seems to me that once a person has violated certain rules, e.g.
- child molestation, insider trading, etc. one might restrict their
- access to tools which are particularly useful towards those ends,
- e.g. guns, crypto etc.
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- I, for one, agree completely with Mr. Fu. Once a person has been convicted
- of a crime the government could outlaw their use of cryptography as a means
- of communication. These would tend to be individuals with a much higher
- probability of future wrongdoing than the general public and hence it seems
- logical to be more wary of their use of any facilities which would make
- future crimes easier to commit.
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- I would be anxious to get further comments about this proposal.
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