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Re: FBI calls for mandatory key escrow; Denning on export ctrls

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Kline)
Wed Sep 3 18:54:16 1997

Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 18:43:02 -0400
To: irwin@niwot.scd.ucar.EDU (B. Lynn Irwin), nanog@merit.edu,
        declan@pathfinder.com
From: Peter Kline <pkline@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709032214.WAA00787@flora.scd.ucar.edu>

At 10:14 PM 9/3/97 GMT, B. Lynn Irwin wrote:
>
>Just remember:
>
> "When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption."
>

Unfortunately, with the government (and many people) that argument carries
no weight when applied to the God-given and constitutionally protected
right to keep and bear arms.  You'll never get anywhere with the
fearmongers and technophobes (who are quite likely also anti-gun).

But don't let that stop you from carrying on the good fight.

-peter



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