At 00:48 2005-06-03 +0100, Ian G wrote:
Just to make it more interesting, the AG of New York, Elliot Spitzer
has introduced a package of legislation intended to "rein in identity theft"
including:
Facilitating prosecutions against computer hackers by creating
specific criminal penalties for the use of encryption to conceal
a crime, to conceal the identity of another person who commits
a crime, or to disrupt the normal operation of a computer;
Ah, imagine the beautiful circularity of the Justice Department using
encryption to protect their criminal identity database from disclosure...
or not.
Greg.
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