Re: [PLUG] how to lose your rights and freedom...

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

If the communication is encrypted, how will anyone know if a crime is 
being planned using encryption? Sounds like the law will need to be 
expanded to make all encryption illegal. Isn't that how we lose our 
freedoms; slowly, bit by bit?  Excessive laws make even the innocent 
guilty of nothing more than exercising their lost freedoms.  Real 
criminals would disregard the laws and take advantage of communication 
that is non-encrypted by law while continuing to use encryption them 
selves. Convenient.


Eugene Smiley wrote:

> Correction: for using encryption in the U.S. in the commission or planning
> of a crime.
> A discussion of this has been going on the PGP-Users mailing list
> (http://www.cryptorights.org/lists/pgp-users/).
>
> plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org <> wrote:
>  
>
> > Patriot II, aka the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 dated
> > January 9th, would impose the first-ever federal criminal penalties
> > for using encryption in the U.S.
> >
> > See the securityfocus story at:
> > http://online.securityfocus.com/news/2296
> >    
>
>  

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