[80500] in Cypherpunks
Re: encryption laws (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Thu May 22 02:17:25 1997
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 19:49:09 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> Subject: Re: encryption laws (fwd)
> From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
> > 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.
>
> Yes - the 5th Amendment is useless like all the other consitutional "rights".
The 5th is meant to apply ONLY to persons being accussed of a crime, it is
not nor was it ever meant to protect non-accussed persons from turning over
evidence of criminal acts.
Jim Choate
CyberTects
ravage@ssz.com
