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- From: vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: Re: PGP as a World Standard
- Message-ID: <15257.2b3fbc6f@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 02:48:14 EST
- References: <bontchev.725034641@fbihh> <1992Dec29.004343.20852@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
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- In article <1992Dec29.004343.20852@unislc.uucp>, erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
- > Vesselin Bontchev (bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de) wrote:
- >
- > : 2) If you have indeed commited a crime when using PGP (which I
- > : sincerely doubt), then the fact that you were not aware of the law
- > : does not make you innocent.
- >
- > True, but the fact that someone discontinues any illegal act when they
- > discover that it *is* illegal (without threat or fear of discovery) may
- > be used as an affirmative defense to prosecution in some jurisdictions.
- >
- > Not that I consider using PGP to be an illegal act...
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- Kinda like sneaking to the stairwell behind the bar, and whipping out the
- ole on hitter, taking a few tokes of some nice gold, getting wasted and
- going back in to watch the band...
-
- > --
- > Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
- >
- > Who and what would you be if you went beyond your deepest fears?
-
- Free and out of debt!
-
- -Garrett
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