Re: Fireworks expected, missed at Senate crypto hearing
At 09:19 PM 7/25/96 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Just more of the same, though we heard less about child pornographers and more about terrorists. And Sen. Slate Gorton (R-Wash) jumped on the committee staff for leaning too far *away* from national security interests in their summary of the legislation.
What does that mean? As opposed to what? (Gorton's my Senator, and I'm going to give a little feedback to his local office...)
The FBI's Louis Freeh kept mouthing the same tired old line: "No reasonable person can envision a lawless information superhighway."
I guess that makes me an unreasonable person!
"It was never meant to be that."
Well, that's just the problem...for _him_! Sometimes actions lead to hard-to-predict outcomes.
We need cops there, as we need them elsewhere. The problem is the proliferation of unbreakable encryption." He said it's "not too late" to stop the spread.
Wishful thinking! Not only is it too late now, it was too late with Clipper I was proposed. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com
jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> wrote:
The FBI's Louis Freeh kept mouthing the same tired old line: "No reasonable person can envision a lawless information superhighway."
I guess that makes me an unreasonable person! "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- Paul Foley <mycroft@actrix.gen.nz> --- PGPmail preferred PGP key ID 0x1CA3386D available from keyservers fingerprint = 4A 76 83 D8 99 BC ED 33 C5 02 81 C9 BF 7A 91 E8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, jim bell wrote:
Just more of the same, though we heard less about child pornographers and more about terrorists. And Sen. Slate Gorton (R-Wash) jumped on the committee staff for leaning too far *away* from national security interests in their summary of the legislation.
What does that mean? As opposed to what? (Gorton's my Senator, and I'm going to give a little feedback to his local office...)
He criticized the committee staff for not preparing a balanced summary. Harsh words, from a Repub. If his comments yesterday are indicia, he won't vote for Pro-CODE. -Declan
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