[5260] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: US Urges Ban of Internet Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Wed Jul 28 14:46:42 1999
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:17:08 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:10:02 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
[Forwarded because no one has brought up this notion in a while. My
problem with it is that most people don't seem to like the 2nd
amendment any more so this can hardly help to popularize the cause. My
feeling is that the 4th and 5th amendments have more potential
protection in them. --Perry]
John, et al.,
In a moment of logic, as if that mattered,
WHEREAS
By the declaration of the state, cryptographic capacity is a weapon, and
WHEREAS
By the facts of use, cryptographic capacity is a personal weapon, and
WHEREAS
The (US) Second Amendment denies the (US) federal government the
authority to restrict personal weapons,
THEREFORE
The right to bear crypto is a (US) constitutional right.
Of course, logic has nothing to do with it because the very
definition of politics is the art of making decisions based
on the manipulation of emotion, but I am, whether by choice
or by genotype, a man of logic and not of emotion, though I
am pissed off...
--dan
