[43852] in Cypherpunks
Re: crypto for porno users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Nov 23 13:44:46 1995
To: Jay Campbell <edge@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Nov 1995 00:17:47 PST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 13:39:55 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Jay Campbell writes:
> A common way to get around prostitution sting operations is to ask the lady
> to expose sensitive portions of her anatomy to prove her sincerity before
> the would-be customer commits to any transactions; this sort of thing is
> also becoming commonplace on the net for pornography or pirated software,
> too.
Except that government agents have mailed people kiddie porn as parts
of stings. I wonder if decoy cops will expose themselves, too.
All these urban myths about undercover police are amusing but quite
useless. Yes, cops can lie about if they are cops. Yes, they can do
all sorts of things.
Perry
