[Cryptography] Govt Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes, ' Obama Says

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 23:00:23 PDT 2016


On 3/13/16, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:
> At 05:59 PM 3/13/2016, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>>No, you really can't argue this in good faith in court.  The designation of
>> crypto as a 'munition' was done by an administrative agency as a
>> classificatory convenience to manage the export control regime (it was
>> considered a dual use technology).  That has no constitutional resonance
>> at all.
>>
>>On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Henry Baker wrote:
>>
>>>A case could be made that citizen crypto is protected -- at least in the
>>> U.S. -- by the *Second* Amendment.  Crypto has been considered "arms" on
>>> & off for hundreds of years, so crypto is as much a right under the
>>> Second Amendment as a firearm.
>
> One if by land; two if by sea.
>
> Code/encryption -- all part of being a militia.
>
> The real reason no one wants to argue this is that most of the folks who are
> for citizen encryption are against citizen guns.  So they've tied their own
> hands when they go to argue in court.

Even if said crypto citizens don't argue... the one group that is for
citizen guns, the NRA [1], is also rather against surveillance / spying
and databases and for privacy [2][3], so were you to reach out to
them you might find a powerful symbiotic ally in the crypto fight.

[1] And other similar RKBA groups.
[2] See their national rally videos on youtube.
[3] Though they may not know how to reach out to crypto
to consult and integrate the philosophy into their position
for their benefit.

https://www.nra.org/
https://www.nraila.org/



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