[47047] in Cypherpunks
Re: Zimmermann case is dropped.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Mandl)
Fri Jan 12 08:45:55 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 08:33:47 -0500 (EST)
From: David Mandl <dmandl@bear.com>
To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
Cc: hallam@w3.org, prz@acm.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601112329.PAA15617@infinity.c2.org>
On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, sameer wrote:
> We've made no progress. Phil has lots lots of time and gained
> lots of grey hairs, and everyone who donated to his defense fund lost
> money.
> The US can still harass people if they want, and make their
> life hell.
Agreed. To me it was always a question of _when_ the charges would be
dropped, not _if_. The point of these things is generally not to
prosecute people but to harrass them, paralyze them, and make them
blow lots of money. Unfortunately, the government was successful on
all three counts. The good news is that if the case hadn't been
dropped it would have meant more of all three for Phil, whether or not
he "won" the case in the end.
--Dave.
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