On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption": > Yes, but they try to scare us here from small group of not > highly-organized terrorists. In this context if the technology is > availble it can be used, whether it is legal or not. > > This is one point where the "terrorism" reasoning is not useful.
This is a good point, that for some reasons many legislators tend to miss. In the US, supporters of the second amendment, like the NRA (National Rifle Association) and ESR (Eric S. Raymond ;) see http://tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/) have the saying "If guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have guns!". Similarly with encryption: if encryption were outlawed, law-abiding citizens would not use it, but criminals (or terrorists) still could, if they only have the minimal amount of sophistication needed to getting hold of an encryption software that doesn't come prepackaged with your Windows. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Sep 9 2002, 3 Tishri 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Windows detected you moved your mouse. http://nadav.harel.org.il |Reboot for this change to take effect. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
