[45197] in Cypherpunks
Voluntary Key Escrow is Freedom, Surveillance is Privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Mon Dec 11 19:22:34 1995
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 16:31:13 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Citizen-unit jim bell wrote:
>Pardon me, but since this "key escrow" system was always claimed to be
>"voluntary," then how can there be any kind of legal penalties associated
>with "failure to release" those keys?
>
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>Which raises another question: Let's suppose I owned a product based on
>CKE, and I went to the escrow agent and said, "This escrow is voluntary,
>right? If so, erase my key in your possession."
>
>Not that I'd trust them to do so, but how "voluntary" can a system be if
>people can't volunteer out of it?
In much the same sense the income tax system is "voluntary."
For further details, consult the definition of "newspeak" in Orwell's novel.
Remember, saying that Voluntary Key Escrow is neither "voluntary" nor
"escrow" is thoughtcrime.
Freedom is Slavery, Surveillance is Privacy, Censorship is Decency
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