Moral Crypto

A. Melon juicy at melontraffickers.com
Tue Sep 4 17:47:33 PDT 2001


At 12:38 PM 9/4/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>In the next five years or so, I would not be suprised to see a call
>for federal licensing of remailers. Some of the more mainstream
>remailer operators might even go along with it, eventually, calling
>for a "voluntary-mandatory" code of conduct and industry self-
>regulation.

What makes you think remailers are such a threat that the federal
government would attempt to license them?  How exactly will they help
criminals and terrorists in the time frame of the next five years?
They're not being used for much today, other than annoying people.
It doesn't seem like criminals use them.  What's the killer app (so
to speak)?





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