-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 06:50 PM 4/26/97 -0400, tz@execpc.com wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote:
My lord, I'm agreeing with Jim Bell!
Right now, no controls exit on domestic crypto, though strict export controls are in place.
The question is: Do we want to give up any domestic freedom in exchange for a relaxation of export controls? (Congress is, after all, built on compromises between warring factions.)
My instinct is to say "No." Let the courts strike down ITAR, EAR, and its progeny, while we keep our freedoms domestically.
-Declan
I emailed Rep Goodlatte, but didn't get a response about this issue. My main problem is that it becomes a felony to use encryption for anything that can be prosecuted if I take the legalese literally. So if I have a GSM cell phone in a car that is illegally parked, it seems that I would fall under the definition.
I would mind it less if, 1. There had to be a conviction for the main crime. 2. The main crime must be a serious felony (i.e. something far worse than a single overdrawn check). 3. The penaly for using encryption in furtherance should be less than that for the main crime. 4. encryption had to play an intrinsic role in the main crime. 5. It must go beyond common, everyday uses of encryption.
It is kind of similar to the laws involving guns and crime. If they find a gun anywhere near the crime scene they tack on bigger and better penalties. (For example: they break down the door of someone who has some quantity of illegal molecules on their property and find a gun in the search. Odds are they will try and tack on the "gun used in commission of a crime" penalties.) Anything that can become a threat to those in power will become eligible for such additional penalties at some point. "In the future it will be extra jail time for using fire and/or the wheel in the commission of a crime. and the people to bring it to you? The TLAs!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQEVAwUBM2OnKOQCP3v30CeZAQGXIAf+JS45w58k062qNfMAOPs8zDrwi2V7LkrD U1ibZoTCA8zr5PMP8/JqOEhY7vxWsduO53OHYJPKj46cqZ5WkLpTJdQUzJ1vRLTZ /hvd84/MgWnThb+zVZoqywH3Ss049vq6RWSJQkNXkGzMrTi3920uOrAXd+55LclN jDjsvEMTnyQN1ziF2v4SMaMNnd0zN0xVG+/xmm4CHcQL2FR0wJhSZGiyYilL21w6 9qIilgQmpx6t7Ma4V94CnFS/mJzPNc/0DHRvnuIBdSD/XPRvJdVdA+gwDXKDoMJk SBhAI3mbrTvPRAP9AE+bco7ecxuDDhJElcTJDU2PjBowu4gfPL3WwA== =72ny -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- | "Mi Tio es infermo, pero la carretera es verde!" | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan@ctrl-alt-del.com|