The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

[mmotyka at lsil.com]

Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:42:24PM -0700, mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:
> > Bear may not be as far off the mark as you think. Remember back when the
> > hot news of the day was militia groups how advocating the violent
> > overthrow of the government and playing soldier in the woods could
> > constitute intent? Can that twisted reasoning be applied to advocating
> > the use of code to obsolete the government and then actually creating
> > code? Should the political speech and coding action be separated? Is
> > participating in both risky? I consider code to be publishing and speech
> > but look at some of the recent GRUsa activity that addresses that issue.
> 
> Can you get put in jail for writing code? Sure. Just ask Dmitry Sklyarov.
> Or read the old crypto regs. Or write a bot that posts child porn and
> start it going. Lots of ways to run afoul of the law -- and that's in
> the U.S., where we may even be a bit more liberal about such things,
> and where some circuits even believe source code is free speech.
> 
> But it does not logically follow that just because you code something,
> such as an anonymous mix or similar system, that you have broken the
> law. In fact, you probably haven't.
> 
> -Declan
>
Agreed, but the parallel is noticeable.

Mike