FC: DOJ quietly drafts USA Patriot II, includes anti-crypto section

[Sunder]

Time to start a new ad campaign:

"You don't run around naked in public do you?  Neither should your
packets!  Encrypt your traffic - it's just common sense!"

"Your internet packets are naked! Clothe them with IPSEC" 

"Don't help the terrorists to your financial info - encrypt!"

"You wouldn't want Osama reading your email, would you?  Encrypt"


Then when everything's encrypted, such laws can be challenged.


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On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> Thanks to Joe for being the first one to submit this... Here's a duplicate 
> URL if the original is too slow:
> http://www.privacy.org/patriot2draft.pdf
> 
> Note the draft legislation creates a new federal felony of willfully using 
> encryption in the commission of a felony. "No more than five years" in 
> prison plus a hefty fine. This seems at first glance to be remarkably 
> similar to what was in the SAFE bill years ago. Here's a Politech message 
> from 1998, before the politechbot.com archives:
> http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.98.05.11-98.05.17/msg00046.html