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Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
BTW, Joe, I'm still waiting for your response to my comments on why
your endorsement of key escrow (GAK) is braindead. Or do you still
think that the Feds should have the right to spy on my conversations,
just like you thought that "porn isn't speech?"
-Declan
On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Joe Shea wrote:
> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Joe Shea <[email protected]>
> To: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
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> Declan, how does your list work? Do you only publish comments
> that agree with you? I didn't see my first two, and this one only came
> with your response. Is this your version of freedom of the press, or what?
>
> Joe Shea
> Editor-in-Chief
> The American Reporter
> [email protected]
> http://www.newshare.com:9999
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 20:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
> >
> > [Joe, this may be yet another area where we disagree. It represents a
> > power grab by law enforcement; the infrastructure is prone to failure
> > and can be compromised; it's more government meddling and coercion and
> > more restrictions on free speech; the Fed bureaucrats controlling this
> > are vulnerable to special-interest lobbying; the Constitution gives
> > the Federal government no right to impose such restrictions; the FBI
> > has demonstrated that we can't trust the Feds with our most personal
> > information; it violates an absolute right to privacy; and it's
> > technically impractical for a good number of applications. --Declan]
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Joe Shea <[email protected]>
> > To: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
> > Cc: fight-censorship
> > Subject: Re: FC: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
> >
> >
> > Declan's most recent piece makes much more sense than the earlier
> > one. He is quite correct in emphasizing the future vulnerability of the
> > encryption logarithms rather than centering on whether or not terrorists
> > might use them. By making them impossible to crack without the key, and
> > permitting the key to be available to appropriate law enforcement
> > authorities when absolutely necessary, everyone's real needs are
> > satisfied, I think. I enjoyed this report a lot.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Joe Shea
> > Editor-in-Chief
> > The American Reporter
> > [email protected]
> > http://www.newshare.com:9999
> >
> >
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