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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Denise Caruso reports on new anti-encryption bill:  S.618
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Date: 6 May 91 18:55:49 GMT
Organization: Cygnus Support, Palo Alto
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Denise Caruso wrote a great piece for her "Inside Technology" column of the
Sunday, 5 May 1991, SF Examiner, on page E-14.  It concerns the attempts
to outlaw encryption and why that is a bad idea.  She claims that there
is a second bill that has had anti-encryption stuff quietly slipped into it
last week by the FBI: S.618, "The Violent Crime Control Act of 1991".

I'll quote her closing paragraph to encourage you to get and read it all:

	"I want crime to stop.  I want terrorism to stop.  But do we
	want to secure the networks or not?  I have *never* seen
	evidence that power in the hands of government authority
	didn't corrupt.  I have never heard of a compromise-able
	network that didn't get compromised.  With increasing reliance
	on computer-based networks, back doors for law enforcement (or
	whoever else figures it out) make me afraid.  I don't think
	they're a good idea."
-- 
John Gilmore   {sun,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!gnu   gnu@toad.com   gnu@cygnus.com
*  Truth :  the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of   *
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*  all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.   *
						-- Richard Childers