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Re: FC: Majority of Americans want anti-encryption laws, poll says
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Wed Sep 19 11:02:20 2001
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 01:07:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: John W Noerenberg II <jwn2@qualcomm.com>,
"Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>,
Cryptography List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> The survey was commissioned by Newsweek. An explanation from Princeton
> Survey Research Associates and the exact wording of the question asked
> (which did cover privacy and business impact) is here:
>
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-02530.html
The wording asked if people favor 'reducing' crypto, a wording so horribly
slanted as to be outright misleading - there's a big difference in the way
one 'reduces' emissions from federal vehicles and the way one *bans*
crypto.
-Bram Cohen
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
-- John Maynard Keynes
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