-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: Ezekial Palmer <an60011@anon.penet.fi> Date: Sat May 14 12:15:04 EDT 1994 Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 11:40:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. David Murray" <rdmurray@keene.edu> Subject: possible anti-mandatory-clipper constitutional angle? A government mandante for key-escrow encryption in all communication devices would be the information-age equivalent of the government requiring private citizens to quarter troups in their home. While I agree with you as to the analogy, a big part of me says "so what?". A major court decision or constitutional amendment that effectively says that electronic info is equivalent to info on paper would go a long way toward rationalizing the situation, but basically there's almost no precedent at all for saying that any civil liberties are protected in the electronic realm and there's a reasonable amount of precedent in the other direction. I suspect that you'd have a lot of trouble convincing the technologically ignorant that something electronic could be at all like quartering troops in your home. A big problem in general is that "the information-age equivalent" isn't something that most people can (or choose to) see. Zeke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLdT5ORVg/9j67wWxAQHhEgP9ENyQ6zAVKst8NhpVxGd5CCBlmVWnNg4L m9HI06Z5rOpbawvSMjkBdKXJGKu5ObKrNqrHP6N9s2ZhvDd2Q7gPdMbm9mXHpf7w /uqsVE1a9bHob7F9FDVkz438a4bP8WaEHyZWOdpmvZ+bB7L1ELhuVWyT12vOy61h vfTBj9B1sN4= =VNuc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------ To respond to the sender of this message, send mail to remailer@soda.berkeley.edu, starting your message with the following 7 lines: :: Response-Key: ideaclipper ====Encrypted-Sender-Begin==== MI@```$]S^P;+]AB?X9TW6\8WR:^P&2':U$*B?=.'X1J!JJA1M.D\ME8M'?MH GS670];'$("C3!.=DH.!6L_>ISX4,5U)O?EU><HU9BY?VZ!&Q3XH= ====Encrypted-Sender-End====