[Cryptography][Law] Jeremy Hammond Banned from using Cryptography

[Mike Gogulski]

The absurdity deepens further when you consider that Hammond will no
doubt be using encryption at some level in the stack when he makes phone
calls via new VoIP-for-inmates services like the one recently
highlighted here:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/fcc-rules-that-prisoners-can-use-cheaper-voip-alternatives-to-call-home/

On 11/16/2013 02:40 AM, Dan Staples wrote:
> It's even more absurd considering the inevitable progress of technology
> over the next 10 years of Hammond's sentence. If we do our jobs right,
> everything will be using encryption by then. This could have the effect
> of simply barring him from using any sort of communicative digital
> technology...making many everyday tasks impossible.
>
> On 11/15/2013 07:57 PM, Privarchy Mee wrote:
>> The claim is that Judge Loretta A. Preska, who sentenced Jeremy Hammond
>> today, said that for the three years (post-release) that he was to spend
>> under supervision, he will not be able to use encryption for
>> communication or storage purposes(!) which is practically a legal edict
>> to go and build a cabin by Walden Pond. How can this be considered
>> anything but cruel and unusual?


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