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From: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell)
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Subject: Re: Denise Caruso reports on new anti-encryption bill:  S.618
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Date: 7 May 91 01:09:56 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gnu@hoptoad.uucp's message of 6 May 91 18: 55:49 GMT

John Gilmore:
   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".

Maybe this is the begining of an attempt to legislate cyberpunks into
existence?  We've already got a number of laws and legal precidents on
the books which basically legalize "criminals" (both in the government
and out).

And you thought this wasn't a free country. :-) :-/ :-)

Raul Rockwell