[117792] in Cypherpunks
Everyone is a felon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Sep 10 15:45:09 1999
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:01:37 -0700
To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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Reply-To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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At 08:27 PM 8/29/1999 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
> What are you talking about? What were "a majority of us" doing
> which would have violated the provisions above? Were cypherpunks
> engaging in the commission of felonies, and encrypting information
> relating to that felony with the intent to conceal?
Almost everyone is a felon. The definition of felon is expanding as
fast as the definition of "interstate commerce" expanded. Just as you
now commit interstate commerce merely by being alive, you will soon be
committing a felony merely by being alive.
Most of my encrypted messages are concealment of felonies. Almost
everything that anyone would wish to conceal is a felony, and almost
all of us are felons whether we know it or not.
My son is currently facing a federal felony charge for possession of a
pocket knife with a blade 2 and 5/8th of an inch long on a university
campus. Go measure your pocket knives.
Every small business that I worked in committed innumerable felonies.
Presumably the large businesses did also, though I was not aware of
what they were up to.
I have lived an ordinary, respectable, middle class life. I have made
my living as an engineer, and formerly a small businessman, and have
committed innumerable very diverse of felonies, which could in theory
get me about a thousand years of jail time, and probably most people
who read this have also, whether they know it or not.
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James A. Donald
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