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Re: [Clips] Can writing software be a crime?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Allen Earnest)
Thu Oct  6 10:44:16 2005
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From: Mark Allen Earnest <mxe20@psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 06:14:41 -0400
To: Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>
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On Oct 5, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Steve Furlong wrote:
>
> For now. But, as has been asked before by people I used to consider
> paranoid, how long before the US government considers a PGP keyring or
> an encrypted partition to be prima facie evidence of criminalty?
>
This has already happened, albeit in a kiddy porn case.
http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/ 
2100-1030_3-5718978.html
Mark Earnest
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