At 03:12 PM 9/26/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:

Question to ponder for the weekend: if it took this kind of "compromise" for a bill to clear the unabashedly pro-business Commerce committee, what will it take for a bill to become law?

Crypto legislation is guaranteed to be bad. We have been saying that for years, and now it has been demonstrated. Just say no to crypto legislation.

The fate of the SAFE bill is now uncertain. The original Goodlatte language has been substantially amended by five House committees, with contradictory results.

No contradiction: There are bad amendments and there are really bad amendments, and there are menacing and totalitarian amendments.

As such, SAFE may no longer be a viable vehicle for the reform of encryption policy that it was originally intended to promote.

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