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Re: Registering "Assault Keys"

#241
From: Steve Owens
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


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From: sjo@cci632.cci.com (Steve Owens)
Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
Message-ID: <1992Oct30.163746.27044@cci632.cci.com>
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