[86886] in Cypherpunks
Re: Are we men or mice? Re: House panel votes behind closed doors to build in Big Brother (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas L. Peterson)
Sun Sep 21 05:34:38 1997
From: fnorky@geocities.com (Douglas L. Peterson)
To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 06:47:25 GMT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970912184035.23828A-100000@beast.brainlink.com>
Reply-To: fnorky@geocities.com (Douglas L. Peterson)
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:15:15 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>> We have a goddamn right to use encryption without a government backdoor.
>
>Frankly among certain crowds many backdoors and other bugs have been
>detected in most OS's, how will the mother fuckers keep them from being
>found and used? I mean, all you have to do is simply get their attention
>and have them snoop on you, meanwhile you watch all the packets and record
>the weird ones and you've got a copy of their session. Yeah, they may use
>crypto on the back door, but even so, you now know their formats, and can
>also disassemble the code. When you do, you've got the hole and can
>publish it.
>
>Once you publish the hole and break the program. Who will have confidence
>in that program after it's broken?
>
>After the evil laws, our jobs will be to break ALL GAK'ed software. How
>will they prevent that? Passing more laws to make the exposure of bugs
>and holes illegal? Sort of like the cell scanner laws? :)
>
They (the government) has already tried to do this by trying to pass laws that
would make reverse engineering illegal. I remember reading about a bill in
congress earlier this year that would have done just this. I don't know the
status of it (I didn't get the bill number).
-Doug
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