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In article <1992Dec18.154947.26478@coop.com> felixg@coop.com (Felix Gallo) writes:
>You're accidentally interpreting a missive from the government as
>a code of ethics.  Ethics come from the inside.  I consider it
>unethical to, for instance, monitor or record day-to-day communications
>without a warrant or reason to suspect criminal activity -- yet the
>NSA [reportedly] does this frequently.  I also consider it unethical
>to support dictatorial regimes, to trade American and Iraqi lives for
>oil, to wage undeclared wars using illegally-obtained funds, and
>to sell weapons of mass destruction on the global market.  I do not
>consider it unethical to communicate in a private fashion.
	Bravo!!  Thank you for saying it.

>No, the law that states
>that mathematical algorithms can be patented is not a realistic nor
>a fair law.  No, the law that states that security of information is
>limited to the government only is not a realistic nor a fair law.
	Bravo again.


>We as individuals posting to these newsgroups are not, in general,
>presidents of major international corporations or wealthy cryptoanalysis
>enthusiasts.  We're students, programmers, systems analysts, and computer
>specialists.  
	Just regular people.  The people that we were mistakenly told
	own this country.  Let's make sure we make our government live
	up to its promise.  That, to me, takes more courage and more
	patriotism than dropping bombs on children in Iraq or Panama.


>As such, we lack both the resources and the time to 
>challenge the government in the areas in which it is wrong; perhaps by
>ignoring its unenforceable policies, we'll be able to build a groundswell
>which will eventually overcome the ignorance evident in the high places
>of our country.
	This needed saying so badly.   Thank you.



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