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Op-ed on encryption: Privacy is no longer an argument
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Fri Sep 21 11:05:07 2001
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:04:45 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/0450203
Crypto Op-Ed: Privacy No Longer an Argument
posted by admin on Thursday September 20, @11:39PM
M. W. Guzy has a provocative and not entirely coherent essay
in Wednesday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Excerpt: "(Then-Senator
John) Ashcroft wrote that mandating deciphering tools was tantamount
to requiring 'individuals to surrender the keys to their house... to
the FBI just in case they are someday suspected of breaking the law.'
Somehow, that argument rings a little hollow when viewed through the
smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center... Now, the landscape has
changed. National sovereignty is at stake, and defeat is not an
option..." Note that Guzy's essay is part condemnation of modern
capitalism, part criticism of business for its support of market
liberalism, and entirely inspired by wartime rhetoric.
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