[87142] in Cypherpunks
Re: How the FBI/NSA forces can further twist SAFE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Thu Sep 25 23:36:17 1997
In-Reply-To: <970925221454_-1833065176@emout19.mail.aol.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:45:26 -0700
To: Syniker@aol.com, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
From: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed@best.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed@best.com>
At 7:17 PM -0700 9/25/97, Syniker@aol.com wrote:
>I'm all for the year... get more people
>using crypto everyday...
This is why holding actions help. Confusing Congress enough to delay taking
up encryption bans may eventually win the war, if in the time between
enough people begin to use and understand encryption that politicians see a
downside in upsetting that many voters by deleting their privacy.
I believe the same factors worked for us in the recent CDA/net-censorship
battles.
--
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you recover your keys."
