🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct27.231241.23112@shearson.com>, pmetzger@snark (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
>Given all this, its obvious that unless we work as hard as possible to
>preserve whats left all will be lost. I cannot encourage people to
>oppose this growing movement to destroy what is left of our rights
>strongly enough. The fact that such a prominent cryptographer as Dr.
>Dorothy Denning would come out in favor of a proposal like handing the
>government all our crypto keys disgusts me more than I can describe. I
>suppose, though, that she imagines that there will never be a time
>when she needs to hide something from the government, pardon, our
>increasingly intrusive and authoritarian government. If we allow ideas
>like this to become enacted into law unopposed, by the time we find
>ourselves powerless against dictators, it will be too late.

I was very surprised to read the proposal by Dorothy Denning.  From
previous work and writings I had seen by her I had gotten to respect
her writing style and content and her interest and in the electronic
communications culture.  It was a shock to read her present such
oppressive, anti-freedom ideas.

I hope Dorothy can be persuaded to change her mind and oppose such
proposals.

Before anyone asks what it's got to do with me, living in Finland, let
me say that I have a big respect for the ideas of personal freedom
presented in the U.S. Constitution - also, on a more selfish
viewpoint, USA is a big political, military and economic power and
what happens in USA will inevitably influence small countries such as
Finland.  Thus I react with fear and disappointment to see the ideas
USA was founded on to get destroyed, doubly so when it seems it happens
because of the effort of well-meaning and intelligent people.

//Jyrki