At 9:35 AM 01/12/95, Russell Nelson wrote:
misdemeanor. I spoke to Bob Penna, the legislative aide who researched and wrote up the bill for Bill Sears. He realizes that the Internet cannot reasonably be censored, and that the solution is to be able to punish people who do it (hence the felony) and to educate
I dont' find that particularly reassuring. "being able to punish people who do it," is ultimately going to have to consist of preventing non-GAK encryption, in the minds of the Gubmint. You can't punish them if you can't catch them, and you can't catch them if they use strong encryption. Well, in reality you still can catch them, after all no one can sexually assault anyone over the internet (yet, anyway). Sometime they've got to do something in person, and there's no encryption in a physical meeting, where everyone sees your TrueFace. But I'm not sure how much I trust the gubmint types to take this all into account, instead of just abolishing crypto on the typical four horsemen platform.