[4894] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Fwd: Britain to ban free use of crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Szucs)
Tue Mar 25 20:00:10 1997
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:50:18 -0700 (MST)
From: Tom Szucs <toms@geo-x.com>
To: Jacob Rose <jacob@whiteshell.com>
cc: Doug Breault <dbreault@ns.sprintout.com>,
Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@veriweb.com>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.93.970324195320.1893A-100000@hummingbird.whiteshell.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Boy, this latest response is really right on target for this mailing
list!!!
Tom Szucs,
Geo-X Systems Ltd.
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Jacob Rose wrote:
> > <USELESS_COMMENTARY>
> > Doesn't it make you feel even BETTER knowing that the British
> > gave up their guns? Losing PGP is going to be the least of
> > their problems... it's sad, people never learn.
> >
> > "Thank God for gun control. Where would the government be without
> > it? Run by the people maybe?"
> > </USELESS_COMMENTARY>
>
> Just what we need, comparison of crypto to munitions. Remember how we
> keep telling Them they're unrelated? There's a reason for that. Guns are
> designed to kill people. Crypto is designed to secret information. You
> can't commit murder with an encryption algorithm. You can accidentally do
> so with a gun.
>
> PS. Okay, so let's suppose you have a gun. The US Army is just
> a'shakin' with fear in its tanks, helicopters, and missile silos.
> Guns aren't useful in "anti-tyranny" activities any longer -
> they are only good for killing other peons. I think, therefore
> I oppose personal arms.
>
> PPS. The murder rate in the UK and Canada is less than that in the
> Washington, DC.
>
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> If there is a god, his greatest achievement is this universe, with its
> perfectly tuned laws of physics, which cause all things to evolve.
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> Jacob Rose All you and I must agree upon is peace.
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