On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Tim May wrote:
At 5:53 PM -0700 9/18/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
It includes very, very troubling severe criminal penalties for the use of encryption in a crime. When encryption is in everything from light switches to door knobs, any crime will include crypto, no? It would be like criminalizing "breathing air in the commission of a crime..."
Yes, SAFE is an evil bill. And anyone who supports the "use a cipher, go to prison" language (*) is guilty of a most serious crime.
Does this mean that if domestic un-GAK'd cryto is a crime then you get charged twice? (1) Once for using un-GAK'd crypto (2) Once for using cyrpto in the commission of a crime "..the only entrenched criminal class in America is congress" Mark Twain (perhaps slightly paraphrased) "How do you explain school to higher intelligence?" Elliot to his brother in ET