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Re: Dorothy and the four Horseman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Del Torto)
Wed Mar 19 19:48:36 1997
In-Reply-To: <199703191759.JAA00286@conrad.rand.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 14:59:39 -0800
To: "Willis H. Ware" <willis@rand.org>
From: Dave Del Torto <ddt@lsd.com>
Cc: David Hayes <david.hayes@mci.com>, Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>,
cryptography@c2.net
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At 9:59 AM -0800 3/19/97, Willis H. Ware wrote:
>I want to contribute the following perspective to this discussion.
>
>> .. I think it's unlikely they'll show any case where a criminal
>> investigation was blocked by crypto, and they were unable to proceed
>> through other means.
>
>Be very cautious about sweeping statements like that. [elided]
Indeed, Willis right: be extremely careful -- Rich Graves at Stanford can
show you a thank-you letter he received from the Alameda County
Sheriff-Coroner thanking him for helping them to decrypt a file on the
computer of a murder-victim which eventually led to an arrest.
Granted it was a WordPerfect file, and not "real" crypto like PGP, but
cases can be demonstrated and it's only going to get more prevalent. It
does nothing to the credibility of cypherpunks to live in a state of
denial: crypto is a powerful tool which _can_ be abused.
dave
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