Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995

[liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray)]

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Weld Pond <weld@l0pht.com> responding to

Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> 

<good discussion snipped>

wrote:


>That raises an interesting issue. 

<good discussion snipped>

>Will they have to invent a huge new bureaucracy
>to manage all these devices and programs? 

Talk about a self-answering question...How else could it be done?

>There are many problems with this idea of 
>Government Access to Devices or Programs (GADOP).  

I can think of only one problem with the idea,
it's called the Bill of Rights.
[If there is anything left of it after this session of Congress.]

>A toolset that could build many different encryption 
>and decryption variations based on psuedo-random input
>may be a good tool to fight this nonsense.

Agreed. As well as steganographic software of many kinds
to hide this terrible "crime" we all love to commit, for
the peace loving among us...

BUT [and I hope this doesn't happen.]
I fear that the anarchy resulting from this kind of statist
idiocy will lead many (otherwise peaceful) folks to think that the
only good tool to fight this nonsense is a good shotgun. 
Of course, then we can simply outlaw those, too. 

<good discussion snipped>
Regards,
Jim Ray


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