The absurdity deepens further when you consider that Hammond will no doubt be using encryption at some level in the stack when he makes phone calls via new VoIP-for-inmates services like the one recently highlighted here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/fcc-rules-that-prisoners-can-use-... On 11/16/2013 02:40 AM, Dan Staples wrote:
It's even more absurd considering the inevitable progress of technology over the next 10 years of Hammond's sentence. If we do our jobs right, everything will be using encryption by then. This could have the effect of simply barring him from using any sort of communicative digital technology...making many everyday tasks impossible.
On 11/15/2013 07:57 PM, Privarchy Mee wrote:
The claim is that Judge Loretta A. Preska, who sentenced Jeremy Hammond today, said that for the three years (post-release) that he was to spend under supervision, he will not be able to use encryption for communication or storage purposes(!) which is practically a legal edict to go and build a cabin by Walden Pond. How can this be considered anything but cruel and unusual?