[TriLUG] "congress mulls stiff crypto laws"

Matt jezorek matt at bluelinux.org
Fri Sep 14 20:46:45 EDT 2001


Seems like the government is going to use this incident in the future of all
"Big Brother" Arguments.

-Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Magid <jem at metalab.unc.edu>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] "congress mulls stiff crypto laws"


> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
>
> > But given the above premise, any encrypted transmission is
> > illegal, and by definition originates with a criminal, and is
> > therefore worthy of investigation.
> >
> > It's only the 'other countries' part that proves the fallacy
> > of *that* position..
> >
>
> There's also steganography. You can hide encrypted content inside of
> unencrypted content.
>
> cheers,
> jem.
>
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