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Re: FBI-virus software cracks encryption wall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Tue Nov 27 15:37:51 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:35:51 -0600
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: "27 Nov 2001 17:54:43 +0100." <3C03C553.9C6BD624@Sun.com>
To: Gilles Gravier <Gilles.Gravier@Sun.com>
Cc: Jei <jei@alpha.hut.fi>,
UKCrypto <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com, politech@politechbot.com,
eurorights@eurorights.org,
Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
Message-id: <200111272035.fARKZpl02780@gungnir.fnal.gov>
> If they only cover Windoze (which is likely) the result will be that
> the criminal / paranoid / privacy freak / hacker community will just
> plain migrate to another OS... Which would be good for the world,
> don't you think?
When outlaws use Linux, Linux will be outlawed.
And I'm not being entirely facetious -- the US has a long history of
things being criminalized only after groups in low favor took them up.
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