[51887] in Cypherpunks
Re: Leahy's guillotine.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. ALLEN SMITH)
Sun Mar 10 20:47:51 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 20:37 EDT
From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
To: jimbell@pacifier.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: IN%"jimbell@pacifier.com" "jim bell" 9-MAR-1996 21:27:52.24
>Further, any organization with even a shred of credibility that does not
>condition its support for this bill on the complete removal of this section
>is doing the rest of us an extreme disservice: It is trading on and risking
>its reputation, because many of them are issuing opinions of this section of
>the bill with assurances that it will only be used against "guilty" people,
>when there is simply no way to know if this is going to be true.
Either complete removal _or_ replacement with something clearly stating
the preferable interpretation (only for cryptography knowingly used by a person
committing a felony to conceal the commission of that felony). The latter,
while not as good as the former (why should there be additional charges for
using cryptography for concealment of a felony?), is acceptable with the other
portions of the bill counterweighing it.
-Allen
