[86828] in Cypherpunks
Re: Because they want to be "players"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burnes)
Fri Sep 19 14:56:29 1997
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:36:27 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v03102808b04792fd9407@[207.167.93.63]>
Reply-To: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Tim May wrote:
> At 5:53 PM -0700 9/18/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> >It includes very, very troubling severe criminal penalties for the use of
> >encryption in a crime. When encryption is in everything from light switches
> >to door knobs, any crime will include crypto, no? It would be like
> >criminalizing "breathing air in the commission of a crime..."
>
> Yes, SAFE is an evil bill. And anyone who supports the "use a cipher, go to
> prison" language (*) is guilty of a most serious crime.
>
Does this mean that if domestic un-GAK'd cryto is a crime then you get
charged twice?
(1) Once for using un-GAK'd crypto
(2) Once for using cyrpto in the commission of a crime
"..the only entrenched criminal class in America is congress"
Mark Twain
(perhaps slightly paraphrased)
"How do you explain school to higher intelligence?"
Elliot to his brother in ET
