[1670] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Extra Prison Time for Everyone: So Don't Worry?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Mon Sep 29 16:09:07 1997
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 12:48:30 -0500
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
In-Reply-To: <v03102800b0558a607125@[199.3.131.82]>
At 12:48 PM 9/29/97 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
>So doesn't that mean that nearly any non-Amish person who commits a crime
>will also use cryptography in the process? So if our prosecutors fair
>about actually adding that count to the indictment, every prison sentence
>will have that extra decade or two appended.
If its applied that way, yes.
>Does the sweeping nature of this proposal, plus a little bit of "equal
>protection" end up making it completely impractical and so moot?
No. Witness e.g., "wire fraud" or "mail fraud." Same thing, different
technology.
