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From: Brett J. Vickers
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:27
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:27
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huntting@advtech.uswest.com (Brad Huntting) writes: >The government is not our freind. It doesn't protect the inocent and >it doesn't punish the well to do. Trusting the government with your >privacy is alot like trusting a kleptomaniac to house sit for you. Even if one had forgotten every instance in which the government has stepped on individual privacy in the past, one would have to look only so far back as the election-time State Department passport scandal to be reminded that the government can rarely be entrusted with issues of personal privacy. If that's not plain-as-day evidence that proposals to regulate cryptography are just plain stupid, I don't know what is. -- Brett J. Vickers bvickers@ics.uci.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!usc!news.service.uci.edu!ucivax!bvickers From: bvickers@valentine.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) Subject: Re: Key registration proposal in CACM Nntp-Posting-Host: valentine.ics.uci.edu Message-ID: <2B0D3C19.15571@ics.uci.edu> Newsgroups: sci.crypt Reply-To: bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept. Lines: 15 Date: 20 Nov 92 19:27:21 GMT References: <1eg9gqINN9u0@hal.com> <1egrl5INN1ig@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov20.000008.13739@advtech.uswest.com>