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Re: The future will be easy to use

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Nov 28 12:35:22 1995

To: Jonathan Zamick <JonathanZ@consensus.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:28:21 PST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:26:46 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


Jonathan Zamick writes:
> I can't agree. The model of a successful enterprise includes feedback from
> different levels of participants.

This isn't an enterprise. The government is not a participant except
by their own desire to interfere.

> Regardless, the government will be taking a role in encryption.

What makes you say that? Besides, why would that be desirable on any
level?

The Government will try to set standards and we will ignore them until
they try to force them on us by law, period.

Perry

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