On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > 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!".
Actually, the Second Ammendment says : "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It doesn't say that everyone run around waving 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. > > -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net ================================================================= 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]
