Criminalizing crypto criticism

[Eugene Leitl]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:

> Unless I'm mistaken a node keeps a reference ( even if only temorarily
> ) to the originating node when data is added. So if I publish
> sooper-infringer.tar.gz and the neighboring node that gets it is a
> narc I'm screwed. Identify your dissidents and put in informants as

Aye, that's the rub. Even if you're acting as a relay, even if you're just
serving out a sliver of the content, even if it's sitting there encrypted
on your hard drive, even if it's ephemeral -- if you serve a packet (while
not spoofing your IP), and legislation makes that prosecutable, yer goose
is cooked ("Your Honour, he's a part of a global terrorist network!").

I'm not sure how you can prevent that, apart from the spoofing or
legislation changing business. Oh, and only making links into legal
compartments guaranteeing maximum persecution friction. So, if your
traffic is unfilterable (it looks like a SSL session), and it comes from
Cuba, the guilty party seems to be more or less immune.

> neighbors. Admittedly I didn't read everything yet. What did I miss?