At 09:19 PM 7/25/96 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Just more of the same, though we heard less about child pornographers and more about terrorists. And Sen. Slate Gorton (R-Wash) jumped on the committee staff for leaning too far *away* from national security interests in their summary of the legislation.
What does that mean? As opposed to what? (Gorton's my Senator, and I'm going to give a little feedback to his local office...)
The FBI's Louis Freeh kept mouthing the same tired old line: "No reasonable person can envision a lawless information superhighway."
I guess that makes me an unreasonable person!
"It was never meant to be that."
Well, that's just the problem...for _him_! Sometimes actions lead to hard-to-predict outcomes.
We need cops there, as we need them elsewhere. The problem is the proliferation of unbreakable encryption." He said it's "not too late" to stop the spread.
Wishful thinking! Not only is it too late now, it was too late with Clipper I was proposed. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com