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Re: Cryptography Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Trei)
Thu Sep 25 11:28:21 1997
From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>, cryptography@c2.net
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:26:56 -6
Reply-to: trei@process.com
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:01:14 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>
> To: cryptography@c2.net
> Subject: Re: Cryptography Legislation
> Things other people have said before:
>
> (1) Those who give up freedom for security will soon have neither.
>
> (2) No person's life, liberty, or property are safe as long as the
> legislature is in session.
>
> (3) A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
(4) Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Peter Trei
>
> Donald
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:52:05 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
> > To: cryptography@c2.net
> > Subject: Cryptography Legislation
> >
> >
> > 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
>
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