[12614] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Gov demanding PGP key.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willis Marti)
Tue May 24 15:32:38 1994
From: Willis Marti <willis@cs.tamu.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 09:42:34 -0500
To: bruce@phantom.com, kadie@eff.org
Cc: eff-mail-com-priv@eff.org
>bruce@phantom.com (Bruce Fancher) writes:
>(Barry Shein) writes:
>|
>| [...]
>| >there was a case of a child molester who had encrypted a file (called,
>| >ominously, "diary") with PGP and they (da gummint) were trying to get
>| >the encryption code he used for that particular document.
>| [...]
>The proper way to handle this is with a subponea. And if the alledged
>child molester refuses to comply then he can sit in jail until he does,
>just like any other subponea.
What ever happened to the 4th amendment? How can you advocate someone being
imprisoned (for not responding to a subponea, constitutional or not) without
bail or without even being convicted of a crime?
