Re: Leahy and Mrs. Bemmis (now that's a subject line)

[jamesd@echeque.com]

At 11:24 AM 3/11/96 -0500, A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security wrote:
> At the same time am pragmatic enough to accept the idea that it will have
> no effect unless it passes and to be passed today it must have something
> like the criminalization statement. 

I am glad to hear that the bill can be easily stopped.  I think we should 
do something to kill it right away.

The only good thing the bill does is give big companies the same power 
that most of us now possess -- the power to export crypto and get away
with it.   A good thing, a very good thing, but small change compared to 
the important individual liberties that the bill lightly discards.

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