On Wed, 6 Sep 1995 hallam@w3.org wrote:
Under UK law it is certainly illegal to create any device with the intention of causing greivous bodily harm to anyone. The right to self defense is very precisely that, the right to take reasonable steps to defend yourself with commensurate force if attacked.
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People who go round drawing parallels to gun ownership and cryptography ownership are simply playing into the governments hands. Cryptography has net benefits to society. Most advocates of gun ownership tend to convince me of little more than they are a danger to society. Regardless of their case they are the biggest argument for gun control, and therfore poor advocates of their cause. I see their attempts to draw parallels with cryptography to be little more than trying to shore up their sinking ship with one thats afloat.
Phill
King George didn't like us owning guns either. I'm pleased my ancestors had a difference of opinion with him concerning this and a few other things. Brad