[12080] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI calls for mandatory key escrow; Denning on export ctrls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Wed Sep 3 23:20:57 1997
From: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
To: spork@inch.com (Charles Sprickman)
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 22:10:07 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970903193123.4038A-100000@shell.inch.com> from "Charles Sprickman" at Sep 3, 97 07:34:25 pm
Charles Sprickman wrote...
> > MR. FREEH:
> > We work, as you know, particularly in the
> > pedophile cases, with on-line services who give us,
>
> For God's sake, what is the obsession with pedophiles?? How many
> pedophiles pgp encode their porn??
>
> What a sad state.
>
> I would have at least been amused by an original argument, but to pull out
> the pedophile trump-card... Someone's desperate.
This is a typical move to try to gather support from otherwise unrelated
and/or uninterested groups. If the government wanted to start putting
pedophiles in jail on a mass basis, all they have to do ... well we all
know exactly what they can do and how easy it is.
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