On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Steve wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > > > It cannot possibly be illegal to decrypt stuff. NSA and other > > intelligence organizations do it all the time as a normal activity > > of their major functions. If they have the right to decrypt stuff, > > then so does everyone else. > > Heh, heh. How much you wanna bet they'll disagree with > you? When something is done in the name of "public safety" > or some such, it's fine, but when a private citizen does the > same thing, it's... well, illegal. > > Case in point: > > http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News3485.lasso
I went to the URL. I did not find there any stories about people decrypting stuff. The URL was mainly about allegedly unreasonable police searches of some people's garbage cans. The moral of the story is that if you have something to hide you shouldn't just throw it away in the garbage can and put it out on the street where anyone can pick up your garbage and snoop around in it. Sam Heywood P.S. BTW, I discovered you were right and I was wrong in identifying the version of PINE running on my remote Unix shell account. I had formerly thought that it was running version 4.44. Now I have found out that it is running only version 4.33. I have changed my sig accordingly. -- Message sent by Unix Pine, Version 4.33
