Re: A temporal remailing (was: CDA = death of crypto)

[lunaslide@loop.com]

>At 3:26 AM 2/7/96, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
>>CDA means that virtually all underground or 'illegal' traffic will be
>>distributed via encryption.
>>
>>As soon as the loony right and fundo Christians realise this, they *will*
>>call for legislation against encryption, and if the CDA is any benchmark,
>>they will easily win.
>
>
>4-1-99. NYT:
>
>   "Congress Passes "Children's Protection and Safe Information Highways" Bill"
>
>      "In a vote of 479-12 in the House of Representatives and 93-5 in the
>Senate, the "Children's Protection and Safe Information Highways Bill" was
>sent to the President, who is expected to sign it on Thursday.
>
>      "The Bill criminalizes the possession of unauthorized cryptographic
>programs and extends the Telecom Act of 1996 and the Digital Telephony Act
>of 1994 to regulate the new cyberspace frontier.
>
>      "Attorney-General Louis Freeh pushed for the legislation, citing the
>growing use of cryptography by dissidents and criminals. "We are hoping
>Congress will next pass the "Secure and Decent Cyberspace Bill." This bill,
>nick-named the "Crypto-Kingpins Bill," will subject traffickers in illegal
>crypto to the same harsh penalties meted out to drug kingpins. "While it
>may seem harsh to execute a person for possession of a key greater than 60
>bits, we must consider the terrible consequences for our children of people
>writing down things the government cannot read," Freeh said.
>
>
>   BAD_nws

So the're going to arrest us all?  It's unconstitutional (of course!) and
unenforcable.  It will have the same effect as Prohibition.

lunaslide

On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion
creating the illusion of truth and drama.
                                                Henry Miller

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