[80477] in Cypherpunks
Re: encryption laws (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Wed May 21 22:10:27 1997
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 19:36:08 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> From: frissell@panix.com
> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 07:45:35 -0400
> >If they had reasonable cause to believe you had knowledge of the key and
> >were refusing to divulge it under direct order of the court you would be
> >held in contempt until you were very old and gray.
> Two years max. A lot less time if you followed my strategy of spamming the
> court with daily (hourly?) screeds in which you assert in your finest Usenet
> flame language the fact that you will never follow the judge's order.
Your contention is that the longest a judge can hold you on contempt charges
is two years? I would love to see a reference on this one.
Jim Choate
CyberTects
ravage@ssz.com
