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Re: Chutzpah! FBI Calls Privacy Extremists Elitist
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Fri Sep 26 23:06:17 1997
In-Reply-To: <199709262200.SAA05070@jekyll.piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:30:20 -0400
To: perry@piermont.com
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
The problem with all the current bills like original SAFE and ProCODE is
that they're too wimpy, abstract, arcane. Who cares about protecting
business? Nobody, at least not when you'll be dubbed soft on crime. So
what's the one thing everyone cares about and wants to protect?
Yes, that's right: CHILDREN!!!! Someone should introduce a bill called "The
Child Molester Prevention and Effective Sentencing Act of 1997."
The summary: "To reduce crime, protect our children, and secure our private
communications from child molesters, pedophiles, and random perverts, this
bill would spur the development of privacy-enhancing technologies by
removing all export controls on encryption products."
Who would ever vote against the CMPA? Who wants to be soft on child
molesters and various lurking perverts? Not even Louis Freeh could
successfully oppose this one...
-Declan
(Okay, okay. It's a Friday. Time for me to go home...)
At 18:00 -0400 9/26/97, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>We have Judge Freeh's new name, its "Louis Freeh, surveilance extremist".
>
>Everyone remember, in all articles and elsewhere, to brand Louis
>Freeh and his happy phone tappers as "surveilance extremists" at every
>opportunity. We all can play at the game...
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Declan McCullagh
Time Inc.
The Netly News Network
Washington Correspondent
http://netlynews.com/
