Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFF Statement on Cryptography & Policy

[jberman@eff.org (Jerry Berman)]

>
John Krezner points out that EFF's crypto statement says

    *    There must be no broadening of governmental access to private
>> communications and records, through wiretap law or otherwise, unless there
>                                                                ^^^^^^
>> is a public consensus that the risks to safety outweigh the risks to
>> liberty and that our safety will actually be increased by the broadened
>> access.
>Does this imply that if some ``majority'' so elects, then you _would_
>sacrifice your privacy to broadened governmental access?  Is this a
>surrender to the most tenacious tyranny of all, the tyranny of the
>majority?  Or do you interpret ``consensus'' rigorously, that is, as
>an absence of dissent?

Jerry Berman responds:


>
NO. NO NO Thanks for pointing this out. I am sure our board will move to
amend the section to state our intent with the following words: "broadened
access, provided it is consistent with the Constitution and the Bill of
rights" or some such formulaton.


>        John E. Kreznar         | Relations among people to be by
>        jkreznar@ininx.com      | mutual consent, or not at all.
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