Time to start a new ad campaign: "You don't run around naked in public do you? Neither should your packets! Encrypt your traffic - it's just common sense!"
"Your internet packets are naked! Clothe them with IPSEC" "Don't help the terrorists to your financial info - encrypt!" "You wouldn't want Osama reading your email, would you? Encrypt" Then when everything's encrypted, such laws can be challenged. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Thanks to Joe for being the first one to submit this... Here's a duplicate > URL if the original is too slow: > http://www.privacy.org/patriot2draft.pdf > > Note the draft legislation creates a new federal felony of willfully using > encryption in the commission of a felony. "No more than five years" in > prison plus a hefty fine. This seems at first glance to be remarkably > similar to what was in the SAFE bill years ago. Here's a Politech message > from 1998, before the politechbot.com archives: > http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.98.05.11-98.05.17/msg00046.html
