[12619] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Gov demanding PGP key.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Fancher)
Tue May 24 17:51:03 1994
From: bruce@phantom.com (Bruce Fancher)
To: willis@cs.tamu.edu (Willis Marti)
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 12:13:14 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: bruce@phantom.com, kadie@eff.org, eff-mail-com-priv@eff.org
In-Reply-To: <199405241442.JAA04684@neuron.cs.tamu.edu> from "Willis Marti" at May 24, 94 09:42:34 am
[Willis Marti] has written:
|
| >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?
|
What would you suggest?
