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Cryptography Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Sep 25 10:53:57 1997
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:52:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-to: perry@piermont.com
One of the things that strikes me as being odd about the current
crypto debate is that it pits about 90% of the informed public against
a tiny minority of law enforcement officials.
Are we living in a democracy, or a police state? Last time I checked,
the law enforcement officials were supposed to be our servants, not
our masters. *WE* decide what is good for us, not them, and the number
of people supporting the FBI's position is tiny compared to the vast
numbers of people who oppose it.
Wasn't it Orson Welles who noted that a policeman's life is only easy in
a police state?
Perry
