Re: Australia next to ban PGP

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From: William Unruh
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:00

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kevinl@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin) writes:

>> Come on! Certainly a ban on cryptography is a stupid and unenforcable

It may be stupid, but it as enforceable as any other law on the books.
and certainly more enforceeable than tax law is.


>Apparently there are about 8,000,000 lines installed (from a Telstra
>employee) So it would seem that you are out by between 0.5 and 1 orders of
>magnitude. 50-100 million calls per day. But yes, LOTS! 

You really think that evey phone makes an average of 10 outgoing calls a
day? Seems rather high to me.
--
Bill Unruh
unruh@physics.ubc.ca

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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Re: Australia next to ban PGP
Date: 1995/08/15
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