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Re: [Clips] Storm Brews Over Encryption 'Safe Harbor' in Data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Fri Jun 3 10:47:13 2005
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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 06:38:44 -0700
To: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, "R.A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
In-Reply-To: <200506030048.38911.iang@systemics.com>
At 00:48 2005-06-03 +0100, Ian G wrote:
>Just to make it more interesting, the AG of New York, Elliot Spitzer
>has introduced a package of legislation intended to "rein in identity theft"
>including:
>
> Facilitating prosecutions against computer hackers by creating
> specific criminal penalties for the use of encryption to conceal
> a crime, to conceal the identity of another person who commits
> a crime, or to disrupt the normal operation of a computer;
Ah, imagine the beautiful circularity of the Justice Department using
encryption to protect their criminal identity database from disclosure...
or not.
Greg.
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