Re: [dvd-discuss] Americans back encryption controls- NOT QUITE!

["Ernest Miller" <ernest.miller(at)yale.edu>]

For a collection of articles on civil liberties in the wake of the attack,
you can check:

http://4.3.69.207:81/

The site is actually a week or two from being fully public (hence the
numerical URL - the site will be known as www.lawmeme.org in the near
future) but it would be a good place to keep current on these issues and
discuss them.


----- Original Message -----
From: <Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org>
To: <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:41 AM
Subject: [dvd-discuss] Americans back encryption controls- NOT QUITE!


> Another piece of irresponsible journalism:
>
> Americans back encryption controls
> A poll finds widespread support for a ban on 'uncrackable' encryption
> products, following proposals in Congress to tighten restrictions on
> software that scrambles data.
> http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/630646.asp
>
> The next paragraphs states:
>
> THE SURVEY FOUND that 72
> percent of Americans believe that
> anti-encryption laws would be
> "somewhat" or "very" helpful in
> preventing a repeat of last week's
> terrorist attacks on New York's World
> Trade Center and the Pentagon in
> Washington, D.C.
>
> Somewhat is NOT very