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Re: 4th ammendment and Cryptography
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Phil Karn:
> ..... Indeed, many of us find cryptography so appealing
>precisely because of its purely defensive nature.
Phil, if you think cryptography as a purely defensive thing, you are
deeply mistaken. Cryptography implies anonymous mail, which in turn implies
the ability to do a lot of harm, through calomny, for example.
Dont be mistaken: cryptography can be an *offensive* weapon.
>Worst of all are the complete loonies (some apparently on this list)
>who assert that guns are an essential protection against a tyrannical
>US Federal Government.
I think there's a place called talk.politics.guns somewhere.
There's more than _some_ people on this list that believe in self-defense
through guns.
- -zap
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