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Article #1851Re: Cryptology and criminals
From: LineNoise
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:59
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:59
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Why must things be taken to extremes? Technology that is primarily used to bring harm to people or avoid law enforcement agencies should be limited in their distribution and monitored closely. We don't want offensive nuclear capability to spread to unstable nations or handguns to be given to people with a history of violent crime(s) or mental instability. On the other hand we want to keep the right to bear arms and use them in self defense and promote the use of nuclear technology when it comes to non-destructive purposes. The same holds with cryptography-- limit it so that the abuse by criminals and other hostile bodies will have the capability to misuse it. Allow only those encryption methods defeatable by the law enforcement agencies to distributed and outlaw the distribution of more powerful methods. And enforce laws that will help protect the common man's privacy from those who have no business in decrypting his data.
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