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Re: Scientology tries to break PGP - and fails?
On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Alan Westrope wrote:
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> Tonight's local news included an interesting blurb about this case.
> The judge refused to order Wollersheim to disclose his passphrase,
> since the encrypted material comprised names of Co$ critics
> who could then be targeted by the Church. And the secret (and
> copyright!) $criptures were read in court and excerpts broadcast
> on the news, "close-captioned for the hearing-impaired."
Anyone have the name of this action, the court it was in or the name of
the judge? I would very much like to see a transcript of his order.
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> All the entertaining stuff some of us have been reading on the
> net was there: aliens transported to earth, volcanoes h-bombed,
> thetans...I laughed my ass off. A bigtime win for PGP and encryption
> generally, and a major PR debacle for the $cienos.
>
> Kute Korrespondences Koda:
>
> Tomorrow, Sept. 9, there will be protests worldwide at Co$ centers.
> I was cleaning out some paperwork and disk file archives recently,
> and noticed that the ViaCrypt and Austin Code Works subpoenas were
> dated Sept. 9, 1993. Grady Ward of ACW has, of course, been a
> major Co$ antagonist, making good use of PGP and the Cypherpunks
> remailers. The old message I found detailing these subpoenas was
> from this list's sometime visionary, L. Detweiler.
>
> Alan Westrope <[email protected]>
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