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RE: Why the White amendment is a good idea (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Weissman)
Thu Sep 25 19:15:15 1997

From: Aaron Weissman <aweissman@mocc.com>
To: "'Lizard'" <lizard@dnai.com>,
        "'fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu'"
	 <fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:12:46 -0600
Reply-To: Aaron Weissman <aweissman@mocc.com>

On Thursday, September 25, 1997 12:00 PM, Lizard [SMTP:lizard@dnai.com] 
wrote:
> But to do that, you see, you'll need warrents, reasons for
> suspiscion, and, becuase of the effort involved, you'll only do it
> for serious crimes with a strong liklihood of conviction. *That* is
> the 'stauts quo' law enforcement *claims* to want.

and the technical realities of encryption, plus the limitations of any 
"NETCenter," will force a respect for, or at least compliance with, the 4th 
amendment.  Hooray!

Aaron


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