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Article #286Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption?
From: Classic Ted
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 23:15
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 23:15
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In article <1cjrskINNd2@gap.caltech.edu> hal@cco.caltech.edu (Hal Finney) writes: I fail to see what right the government has to force users to give up the privacy of their communications. These measures are what I would expect from Orwell's _1984_ rather than a modern Western government. under subpoena by a grand jury, you can be forced to testify about any knowledge you have of activities being considered by the grand jury. similarly, refusing to cooperate with law enforcement authorities can be construed to be withholding of evidence in later criminal proceedings. thus the government already has the right to what is in your head. why is that so different from what is in your computer?
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!nigel.msen.com!fmsrl7!lynx!nmsu.edu!opus!ted From: ted@nmsu.edu (Classic Ted) Subject: Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption? In-Reply-To: hal@cco.caltech.edu's message of 27 Oct 1992 16:48:20 GMT Message-ID: <TED.92Oct31161542@lole.nmsu.edu> Sender: usenet@nmsu.edu Reply-To: ted@nmsu.edu Organization: Computing Research Lab References: <1992Oct26.180813.7002@netcom.com> <1cjrskINNd2@gap.caltech.edu> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 23:15:42 GMT Lines: 20