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Re: Top Pentagon official...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Cobb, CISSP)
Fri Jul 31 10:39:55 1998
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:17:33 -0700
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
From: "Stephen Cobb, CISSP" <stephen@iu.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199807302025.QAA22919@jekyll.piermont.com>
At 04:25 PM 7/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
> Pentagon: No Right to Secrecy
>by Michael Stutz
>
>6:45pm 29.Jul.98.PDT The Pentagon's top civil servant believes that no
>two people in the world have a "God-given right" to communicate in
>total secrecy, according to information made public this week.
Do we know where this information is posted?
In the quotes provided by Stutz, Hamre does not actually say what Stutz claims, he does suggest there is no "God-given, inherent right to send the strongest encryption to anybody in the world, no matter who they are."
Hamre also says:
>"I do not believe that it's more important to protect ourselves
>against terrorists if it means it comes at the expense of civil
>liberties in the United States,"
I am not defending Hamre, merely observing that we will never get anywhere in this debate if we over-state or mis-state what the various parties are saying.
Respectfully...Stephen
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