🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Dec10.185107.10925@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom.com (David
Sternlight) writes:

|>
|>I have mixed feelings about Uri's message.
|>
|>Until the legal status is resolved, one might wish to get rid of the
|>PGP "tags" which are overt confirmation that one is using a public key
|>system. On the other hand, I disagree in the sense that if unlicensed
|>use of public key systems REALLY IS a violation of law (not "is
|>asserted to be by PKP")--for example after a court case--then his
|>suggestions is tantamount to publicly advocating the concealing of a
|>legal violation, which I cannot support.
|>
|>If one feels PKP is over-broad in their claims, the way to deal with
|>this is by direct resolution. If one feels PKP is legally on firm ground
|>but thinks there "shouldn't be" patent protection for software, or some
|>such, again the way to deal with this is by trying to get the law changed.
|>I'm not one who supports illegal acts in the face of what one thinks
|>is unfairness.

There is nbo such thing as a Patent for software in Europe. PKP's claim has no
validity here. Nor for that matter do the restrictions of the FBI.


|>Finally, I trust the police and intelligence agencies of our
|>government.  They are not a bunch of fascists out to get the innocent,
|>as some messages sometimes imply, but hard-working fellow-Americans
|>trying to do a very difficult job. Yes, there have been, and may
|>continue to be some individual abuses, sometimes by senior people, but
|>the way to deal with that is via strong internal and external
|>watchdogs, and by clear definition of what is, and isn't to be
|>permitted.

Yeah like MI5 went and bugged their Prime Minister, sure you can trust the CIA
and FBI, hell they are American, makes a difference you know.


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Phill Hallam-Baker