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 In <1992Nov11.163215.29116@news.eng.convex.com> gardner@convex.com
 (Steve Gardner) writes:


>        I don't have to defend cryptography to anyone.

   Not now, no.  Someday it may be too late to try.


>The point
>        isn't that they won't outlaw cryptography but that it won't
>        do any good for what they think they are trying to do.

 The point is that such a law could put you in jail if you cross it.
 Any view that such a law would not be good for society must be
 *made*, and not just *assumed*.


>        The problem here is that people are assuming that the law
>        enforcement types know something about computers.  NOTHING
>        could be further from the truth.  My 10 year old daughter
>        knows more about computers than the D.A.

 Long ago, and far away, a guy I knew in high school had the same
 idea.  He was selling dope out of his house and "dating" the
 underage daughter of a local muckety-muck when she got off school
 every day.  He said, "What can her old man do about it?"  He said,
 "The police couldn't find their a__."  The last I heard, he was a
 "three time loser" doing hard time in the state pen.

 Betting your future on the incompetence of authority is a fool's
 bet.

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 Terry Ritter   ritter@cactus.org