The problem of playing politics with our constitutional rights

[Douglas L. Peterson]

On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:11:18 -0700, you wrote:

>At 10:05 PM -0700 9/11/97, James S. Tyre wrote:
>>So, the last rhetorical question -- how do you convince someone who's
>>never used a browser (the vast majority of the voting populace, I'd
>>think) why crypto is important?
>
>When I walk through South-of-Market in San Francisco and hear people
>trading URL in conversation as the walk down the street and see URLs on TV,
>Billboards and even the side of busses, I wonder if this assumption is
>really true.
>

A lot of these are the same people who think nothing of giving their
Credit Card numbers over the phone.  Or use the word "SECRET" for a
password.  Until they get burned, they don't think about the problem.

-Doug
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