At 08:54 PM 9/3/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
I don't know where the authority for mandatory seat belts and air bags is claimed to come from, either. Or helmet laws in various states. Someone else is welcome to spend time researching this. Personally, all such laws are infringements on personal freedom, in my view. I half expect a case will be made that key escrow is a "safety" feature. Freeh's invocation of air bags may have been a clever signal.
I noticed that strange air bag analogy myself. Clearly, Freeh and his puppet masters are trying to skew the discussion towards "public safety". Of course, requiring GAK is more like requiring a remote kill switch in the ignition of all new cars so cops can just type a license plate number into their terminal to halt a fleeing car. [BTW, such kill switches will be required before long. I trust we all know this]. Frankly, I don't care if they outlaw crypto. We'll just glue stego on top of it. And Joe Sixpack couldn't care less. Nor do I care if Joe Sixpack wants to be spanked by his wife or plungered by his government. It's his choice. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/