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Re: FCPUNX:EPIC Alert 4.13 on crypto and more
At 03:12 PM 9/26/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> Question to ponder for the weekend: if it took this kind of "compromise"
> for a bill to clear the unabashedly pro-business Commerce committee, what
> will it take for a bill to become law?
Crypto legislation is guaranteed to be bad. We have been saying that
for years, and now it has been demonstrated.
Just say no to crypto legislation.
> The fate of the SAFE bill is now uncertain. The original Goodlatte
> language has been substantially amended by five House committees, with
> contradictory results.
No contradiction: There are bad amendments and there are really bad
amendments, and there are menacing and totalitarian amendments.
> As such, SAFE may no longer be a viable vehicle
> for the reform of encryption policy that it was originally intended to
> promote.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
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