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Re: [dvd-discuss] [declan@well.com: FC: Congress considers encryptionrestrictions in response to attacks]
- To: <dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu>
- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] [declan@well.com: FC: Congress considers encryptionrestrictions in response to attacks]
- From: Rik van Riel <riel(at)conectiva.com.br>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:16:33 -0300 (BRST)
- Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan(at)well.com>
- In-Reply-To: <20010913173254.C26096@cluebot.com>
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 lists@politechbot.com wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> -----
> For nearly a decade, privacy mavens have been worrying that a
> terrorist attack could prompt Congress to ban
> communications-scrambling products that frustrate both police wiretaps
> and U.S. intelligence agencies.
>
> Tuesday's catastrophe, which shed more blood on American soil than any
> event since the Civil War, appears to have started that process.
OK, somebody needs to tell Congress that people who have
the determination and nerve to fly airplanes into buildings
or do suicide bombings on shopping centers are unlikely to
be intimidated by software regulations.
regards,
Rik
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