At 5:22 PM -0800 5/15/97, Greg Broiles wrote:
At 09:13 AM 5/14/97 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Feinswine/Swinestein is the most despicable of all the politicians in Congress. (This is not just ideology speaking...her usual-ally Barbara Boxer is much less swinish, and even has some independent thoughts. I can't see I often agree with Boxer, but she's not the Big Sister automaton that Swinestein is.)
FYI, Boxer is now (as of 5/12/97) a cosponsor of Sen. Leahy's ECPA/1997 (Encrypted Communications Privacy Act of 1997) - that's the bill with the complex structure for "voluntary" key recovery and criminal penalties for use of crypto "in furtherance of" felony.
As I said, I am no ideological ally of Boxer. Her style is less swinish, to my way of thinking, than Feinstein's is. (In much the same way I find Stewart Baker, formerly of the NSA, less irritating than Dorothy Denning, though of course Baker is proably more dangerous than Denning.) Both Boxer and Feinstein are ideological peas in a pod, of course. Stylistically, and perhaps as human beings, they are far apart. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."