Re: PGP and real criminals

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From: Steve Gardner
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:26

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In article <1ej1fsINN5ad@morrow.stanford.edu> castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU (Castor Fu) writes:
>With all the talk about "suspected" child molesters, etc. I thought I
>would bring up one point. How do people feel about restricting cryptographic
>privileges of people once they have been convicted of a particular
>set of crimes?
	Impossible to enforce.  Such restrictions don't even work with
	guns and guns are somewhat controled.  Computers are not purchased
	only from "licensed dealers" like guns are.  



							smg

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