🚀 go-pugleaf

I put the antecedent to this message on CapMac's internet SIG and also on our
DevSig in mid-April.  The next day there was two articles in the Statesman's
TechMonday, and neither of them metioned an arrest, although one story stated
that Zimmermann was a subject of a grand jury investigation.  After several
inquiries to the Statesman, the editor and I concluded that the NPR story most
likely was wrong.

I would be interested in any information concerning this subject.  I know that
the Feds want to bottle up free exchange of information, and in light of
Oklahoma City, they might succeed.  But Zimmermann's "offense" was giving away
software that he himself had developed.  And as far as public key/private key
encryption, I have a Scientific American article dated August 1979 that covers
the subject well enough that 10% - 15% of the developers in CapMac could
re-engineer PGP.  There are probably several hundred thousand others
nationwide with similar abilities.  Moreover, the bookstores have entire
shelves devoted to the subject.  The fact is that the encryption genie is out
of the bottle and cannot be put back.  This was the result of the lawful and
proper activities of many people, and  singling out one or two individuals for
official wrath is to me immoral.


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