Leahy's guillotine.
E. ALLEN SMITH
EALLENSMITH at ocelot.Rutgers.EDU
Mon Mar 11 01:50:31 PST 1996
From: IN%"jimbell at pacifier.com" "jim bell" 9-MAR-1996 21:27:52.24
>Further, any organization with even a shred of credibility that does not
>condition its support for this bill on the complete removal of this section
>is doing the rest of us an extreme disservice: It is trading on and risking
>its reputation, because many of them are issuing opinions of this section of
>the bill with assurances that it will only be used against "guilty" people,
>when there is simply no way to know if this is going to be true.
Either complete removal _or_ replacement with something clearly stating
the preferable interpretation (only for cryptography knowingly used by a person
committing a felony to conceal the commission of that felony). The latter,
while not as good as the former (why should there be additional charges for
using cryptography for concealment of a felony?), is acceptable with the other
portions of the bill counterweighing it.
-Allen
More information about the cypherpunks-legacy
mailing list