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Re: [TCLUG:2962] lynx w/ secure server
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Christopher Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Vince Platt wrote:
>
> > Just out of curiosity, does anyone have a good explanation we can hand law
> > enforcement officials about why we believe encryption should not be
> > controlled? I mean, they really don't like to hear stuff about preventing
> > police states and such, so how the heck are we going to manage to keep it
> > legal otherwise without sounding pro-terrorist?
>
> "I have First and Fifth Amendment rights, please give them to me" doesn't
> go very far with law enforcement. You just have to *take* those rights,
> not ask for them.
>
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> Christopher Reid Palmer : reid@pconline.com : www.pconline.com/~reid/
>
> "Luminous beings are we. Not this...crude matter." -- Yoda
>
*as fbi agents break down his door and arrest him as being a "risk of
national security*
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