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From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: encrypted mail
Message-ID: <198@geowhiz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 23:41:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: geowhiz.198
Posted: Mon Jun 10 23:41:55 1985
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References: <398@mtxinu.UUCP> <685@vortex.UUCP>
Reply-To: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Organization: UW Madison, Geology Dept.
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In article <685@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP writes:
>
>The complex legal issues surrounding this area haven't even 
>BEGUN to be explored.  And I wouldn't expect all the new laws that are
>written to encourage such use of encryption -- individual property,
>intellectual property, and privacy could be both enhanced *and* damaged
>by "anonymous" encrypted materials, and I would expect to see
>laws that took both the positive and negative factors into account.
>
>--Lauren--

Look, we in the USA still live in a country that provides for freedom
of dissemination of information.  If we'd have taken Lauren's paranoid
views on the law of telecomunication seriously, we'd have never had this
network in the first place.

I'm not a lawyer, but I believe that we still have the right to disemenate
infornmation as a constitutional right.  Even in this day of right wing
courts, I think we can trust in that right.

I vote for encrypted mail.
-- 
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