Senate panel nixes ProCODE II, approves McCain-Kerrey bill

[frissell at panix.com]

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At 04:18 PM 6/19/97 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>After the vote, advocacy groups tried to put a good
>face on the devastating loss -- and an expensive
>defeat it was. After 15 months of lobbying, countless
>hearings, backroom dealmaking, and political capital
>spent, ProCODE is gutted and dead. "There's another
>day. We have confidence in the system," said BSA's
>Robert Holleyman. CDT's Jerry Berman said, "What is
>encouraging is that unlike the CDA other committees
>are getting involved."

Anyone mentally retarded enough to expect a congresscritter to protect one's 
rights deserves everything they get.  "Advocacy groups" could have better 
spent their time litigating crypto and encouraging the use of strong crypto 
by themselves and their supporters.

DCF


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