[87078] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Telcos oppose Oxley
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Sep 25 12:22:43 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102801b04f78b7716f@[207.167.93.63]>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:18:50 -0700
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>,
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, Lizard <lizard@mrlizard.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: Peter Herngaard <pethern@inet.uni-c.dk>, <telstar@wired.com>,
fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 7:18 PM -0700 9/24/97, Tim May wrote:
>The good news today is that if Salomon keeps to his word, the Security and
>Fascism Through Escrow Act is dead, dead, dead.
Even if he doesn't, I don't think Clinton will sign it (in its present,
export enabling, criminal sentence enhancing) form.
The scary thing is that <sarcasm> great lover of the technology industry
and the Bill of Rights </sarcasm) Senator Finestein will pass a bill in
Oxley form through the senate, and the bill that goes to Clinton will be
written in the conference committee. It's as scary as letting the
congresscritters hold a constitutional convention.
[My spell checker gave me the option of "Replace" for "Finestein". I was
tempted.]
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