The absurdity deepens further when you consider that Hammond will no doubt be using encryption at some level in the stack when he makes phone calls via new VoIP-for-inmates services like the one recently highlighted here:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/fcc-rules-that-prisoners-can-use-cheaper-voip-alternatives-to-call-home/ On 11/16/2013 02:40 AM, Dan Staples wrote: > It's even more absurd considering the inevitable progress of technology > over the next 10 years of Hammond's sentence. If we do our jobs right, > everything will be using encryption by then. This could have the effect > of simply barring him from using any sort of communicative digital > technology...making many everyday tasks impossible. > > On 11/15/2013 07:57 PM, Privarchy Mee wrote: >> The claim is that Judge Loretta A. Preska, who sentenced Jeremy Hammond >> today, said that for the three years (post-release) that he was to spend >> under supervision, he will not be able to use encryption for >> communication or storage purposes(!) which is practically a legal edict >> to go and build a cabin by Walden Pond. How can this be considered >> anything but cruel and unusual?
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