[13576] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA Chief Counsel in Wired, to appear on AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Thu May 12 17:07:04 1994
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 13:58:34 -0700
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405122006.OAA11345@spot.Colorado.EDU> (message from Richard Johnson on Thu, 12 May 1994 14:06:04 -0600)
> What worries law enforcement agencies --what should worry them -- is a
> world where encryption is standardized and ubiquitous: a world where
> anyone who buys an US$80 phone gets an "encrypt" button that
> interoperates with everyone else's; a world where every fax machine
> and every modem automatically encodes its transmissions without asking
> whether that is necessary. In such a world, every criminal will gain a
> guaranteed refuge from the police without lifting a finger.
Well, I guess we now know what our mission is as cypherpunks. :-)
Phil
