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Congress Mulls Stiffer Crypto Laws
Wired News ^ | 9/13/01 | Declan McCullagh

Posted on 09/13/2001 4:06:23 PM PDT by Sandy

Edited on 06/29/2004 7:08:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

For nearly a decade, privacy mavens have been worrying that a terrorist attack could prompt Congress to ban communications-scrambling products that frustrate both police wiretaps and U.S. intelligence agencies.

Tuesday's catastrophe, which shed more blood on American soil than any event since the Civil War, appears to have started that process.


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Right on cue.
1 posted on 09/13/2001 4:06:23 PM PDT by Sandy
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To: Sandy
And as I predicted, Republicans are joining the in the call to strip freedoms from law-abiding Americans. We can't let them sneak this stuff through.
2 posted on 09/13/2001 4:49:39 PM PDT by ThinkDifferent
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To: ThinkDifferent
And as I predicted, Republicans are joining the in the call to strip freedoms from law-abiding Americans. We can't let them sneak this stuff through.

Imagine. Libertarians not giving a damn how many American citizens die so long as you punks can do whatever the hell you want.

3 posted on 09/13/2001 5:08:03 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
Perhaps you're on the wrong thread. This article has nothing to do with libertarians.
4 posted on 09/13/2001 5:12:35 PM PDT by Sandy
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To: Sandy
This article has nothing to do with libertarians.

The article doesn't, you're right.

But, if this thread doesn't die, just watch who joins in the fun.

5 posted on 09/13/2001 5:21:08 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: Sandy
It is too late. Crypto technology is worldwide.

Anonymous servers can be located in foreign nations, immune to U.S. laws.

Crypto S/W will continue to be written and exchanged on the Web.

The Genie has left the Bottle.

--Boris

6 posted on 09/13/2001 5:47:32 PM PDT by boris
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To: ThinkDifferent
We can't let them sneak this stuff through.

They won't have to try to sneak anymore. After Tuesday's attacks, Congress can pretty much do whatever it wants now, and Americans will cheer.

7 posted on 09/13/2001 5:50:27 PM PDT by Sandy
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To: boris
The Genie has left the Bottle.

Perhaps, but that certainly won't stop our government from trying to put the genie back. Heck, they thrive on this sort of thing--fighting "wars" that can't be won.

8 posted on 09/13/2001 6:12:16 PM PDT by Sandy
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To: Sandy
Barn.
Door.
Horse.
Gone.

-ccm

9 posted on 09/13/2001 9:42:00 PM PDT by ccmay
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To: sinkspur
Are you suggesting that there are no cryptographers outside the borders of the U.S.? Or, perhaps we should legislate this at the UN level?

The crypto export ban was always a law that accomplished absolutely nothing.

The way to deal with terrorists, and those who assist them, is with bombs, and lots of them. Deterrence is the only answer.

10 posted on 09/13/2001 9:52:06 PM PDT by B Knotts
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To: Sandy
Like guns, crypto software is primarily defensive and already widespead.
As for controlling it, imagine gun control,
but applied to guns that are invisible, noiseless, downloadable, and free.
11 posted on 09/13/2001 9:53:57 PM PDT by meta
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