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You _were_ using that software on a _computer_ weren't you? Guess it's one of your racketeer's tools, so we'll have to take it for ourselves, er, um, for evidence and protection of national security....

This wasn't really my point. Grassley's bill implies that uploading crypto to an overseas FTP site would qualify as a predicate act, needed for a RICO seizure. I think he is assuming that someone would do this for the purposes of making money: and that anything bought with that money would be RICOable. I don't think he or anyone else in Congress is aware that people tend to do this stuff for free. I remember one of the sponsors of the CDA ranting about pornographers "profiteering" from pornographic images on the Internet, blissfully unaware that stuff downloaded from alt.sex.binaries.insert.your.fetish.here doesn't profit anyone but the phone company (for the hours you stay online to get it). So I'm wondering who this RICO stuff applies to. The guy who wrote it and uploaded it to an FTP site? He's not profiting. The guy who uses it? He didn't commit the predicate act. Who? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6ui iQCVAgUBMArYUI4k1+54BopBAQGk6AQAufSXBBB9/XoDcKoWaalLdp+hxO/kSER1 wEtEAcRqh3YZR9IRVFuFsmotJ8exupaOzy+OLldublq1RfaCR/Jjqvc0V1uSovYA DA9eFjYApGSPoDkQp6C6ZVcJVqpD1QQhNYpY96nABTp45AYsMlrdpartwjJZKDLz Rx1EFNVwoC4= =K75H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Thank you VERY much! You'll be getting a Handsome Simulfax Copy of your OWN words in the mail soon (and My Reply). <Andrew.Spring@ping.be> PGP Print: 0529 C9AF 613E 9E49 378E 54CD E232 DF96 Thank you for question, exit left to Funway.