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Article #241Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
From: Steve Owens
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 16:37
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 16:37
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In article <Bww88E.DFt@news.iastate.edu> geff@iastate.edu (Geff Underwood) writes: >In article <unruh.720338918@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes: >>tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes: >> >>>Registering "Assault Keys" -- How the Proposal to Register Encryption >>>Keys Has Ominous Parallels to Gun Control >> >>If crypt really is like guns, >>whose only use is to kill lots of innocent people > >Whether you know better or not, there are quite a few people who really do >believe what you've written above. For the benefit of those people I must >ask how, if the only use of a gun is to kill lots of innocent people, can >the creation of an army be justified? Oh that's easy: *They* aren't going to kill *us*, they're going to kill the *enemy*. But you see, criminals may shoot at us, but they're a part of that us, so that's a completely different thing. >-- >Geff Underwood >geff@iastate.edu :-) -- for the humor impaired. Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Head like a hole Steven J Owens @ CCI Black is the soul (716) 482-5000 Ext 2867 I'd rather die sjo@op632.cci.com Than give you control." -- Nine Inch Nails "Head Like a Hole"
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!udel!rochester!rit!cci632!sjo From: sjo@cci632.cci.com (Steve Owens) Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys" Message-ID: <1992Oct30.163746.27044@cci632.cci.com> Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY References: <1992Oct28.235027.28039@netcom.com> <unruh.720338918@physics.ubc.ca> <Bww88E.DFt@news.iastate.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 16:37:46 GMT Lines: 36