ANNOUNCEMENT: EFF Statement on Cryptography & Policy
John E. Kreznar
jkreznar at ininx.com
Wed Dec 8 18:50:48 PST 1993
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> * There must be no broadening of governmental access to private
> communications and records, through wiretap law or otherwise, unless there
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> is a public consensus that the risks to safety outweigh the risks to
> liberty and that our safety will actually be increased by the broadened
> access.
Does this imply that if some ``majority'' so elects, then you _would_
sacrifice your privacy to broadened governmental access? Is this a
surrender to the most tenacious tyranny of all, the tyranny of the
majority? Or do you interpret ``consensus'' rigorously, that is, as
an absence of dissent?
John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by
jkreznar at ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all.
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