-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 06:11 PM 5/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
I advise crypto proponents to halt any analogy-making to firearms, for this reason. Nothing against guns, of course; but to gain acceptance crypto cannot be dropped in the same conceptual bin as guns.
-Xcott
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