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Re: encryption laws (fwd)

To: [email protected] (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: encryption laws (fwd)
From: Jim Choate <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 19:49:09 -0500 (CDT)
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> Subject: Re: encryption laws (fwd)
> From: [email protected] (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)

> > If they had reasonable cause to believe you had knowledge of the key and
> > were refusing to divulge it under direct order of the court you would be
> > held in contempt until you were very old and gray.
> 
> Yes - the 5th Amendment is useless like all the other consitutional "rights".

The 5th is meant to apply ONLY to persons being accussed of a crime, it is
not nor was it ever meant to protect non-accussed persons from turning over
evidence of criminal acts.


                                                     Jim Choate
                                                     CyberTects
                                                     [email protected]

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