[ale] Homeland Security Act - Perhaps I should take up farming?

[linux at cade.org (Cade Thacker)]

"The purpose of encryption is to protect good people
from bad people, not to protect bad people from the government."
     Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems


Hey Chuck,
I don't see how this can be a valid statment(or is that the point?). AFAIK
the encryption method isn't:

encrypt(myData, person)
{
	if(person.good())
	{
		//encrypt data
	}
	else if(person.sortaShady())
	{
		//encrypt with Poindexter backdoor
	}
}

Just a thought...

--cade

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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Chuck Huber wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:16:26PM -0500, John Wells wrote:
> > Just read this (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html)
> > article about the Homeland Security Act and everything that is being
> > tacked onto it.
>
> John,  This url requires a login.  Care to cut-n-paste it to the
> list?
>
> Thanks,
>     - Chuck
>
> --
> "The purpose of encryption is to protect good people
> from bad people, not to protect bad people from the government."
>      Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems
> "The best way for government to control people is to remain in
>    a constant threat of war." ---Karl Marx
> (18 USC 242), which applies to government agents overstepping their
> authority:
>   "Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation,
>   or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory,
>   or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or
>   immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of
>   the United States, . . . shall be fined under this title or
>   imprisoned not more than one year, or both . . ."
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