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Re: Dorothy and the four Horseman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Mar 19 10:22:48 1997
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <199703182209.OAA23941@gabber.c2.net> from sameer at "Mar 18, 97 02:09:12 pm"
To: sameer@c2.net (sameer)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:48:01 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
sameer wrote:
| I think it would be wise for folks on "our side" to reply to
| this request, saying how cryptography is an essential tool for
| fighting organized crime, terrorists, etc.
| (She sent it to infowar@infowar.com, which is a public list,
| not just for law enforcement-types, right? [I consider myself a
| law-and-order type anyway =])
I agree with Sameer, and was struck by how much my response to
this question resembled my response to the NAS CRISIS question, so I
just sent that in. Many of us probably has work that has not been
drawn to the attention of Mr Baugh & Dr. Denning, which makes
responding to this easy.
Adam
--
"Well, that depends. Do you mind the end of civilization as we know
it?"
