[87991] in Cypherpunks
Re: What's really in PGP 5.5?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian B. Riley)
Fri Oct 10 05:04:33 1997
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 97 04:32:58 -0400
From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Reply-To: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
On 10/9/97 12:42 PM, Anonymous (anon@anon.efga.org) passed this wisdom:
>It still satisfies the government's requirement to get routine
>access to most email communications, and to allow criminals who
>use standard email packages to be watched.
This sums up the stupidity of the whole thing. The *only* thing the
government achieves is invasion of honest people's privacy and catching a
few stupid crooks who would most likely fuck up anyway and get caught if
they are actually stupid enough to think government escrowed encryption
is gonna hide their communications.
Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr
For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key>
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