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Re: Dorothy and the four Horseman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Wed Mar 19 20:56:21 1997
From: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
To: ddt@lsd.com (Dave Del Torto)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 17:45:08 -0800 (PST)
Cc: willis@rand.org, david.hayes@mci.com, talon57@well.com,
cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <v03102102af561f1ab5d1@[204.179.134.1]> from Dave Del Torto at "Mar 19, 97 02:59:39 pm"
An interesting thing about showing examples of crypto use and
criminals:
1) If law enforcement managed to decrypt the data and catch the criminal,
crypto didn't stop "justice"
2) If law enforcement couldn't decrypt the data, there's no proof that
the data would have helped bring the criminal to "justice"
Saying that 'criminals don't use crypto' is unwise of course,
I agree.
>
> 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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