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1995-09-07 - Re: Are booby-trapped computers legal?

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From: “Josh M. Osborne” <stripes@va.pubnix.com>
To: hallam@w3.org
Message Hash: f1152c046d4233f09a4562ceada1dcc90b0ae9f3e143321d766b7313bc035aa6
Message ID: <JAA25827.199509071316@garotte.va.pubnix.com>
Reply To: <9509061938.AA02249@zorch.w3.org>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-07 13:16:30 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 7 Sep 95 06:16:30 PDT

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From: "Josh M. Osborne" <stripes@va.pubnix.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 95 06:16:30 PDT
To: hallam@w3.org
Subject: Re: Are booby-trapped computers legal?
In-Reply-To: <9509061938.AA02249@zorch.w3.org>
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In message <9509061938.AA02249@zorch.w3.org>, hallam@w3.org writes:
[...]
>People who go round drawing parallels to gun ownership and cryptography 
>ownership are simply playing into the governments hands.

That could well be.  (that's a crypto relivant as this message
gets - sorry)

>                                                        Cryptography has net 
>benefits to society. Most advocates of gun ownership tend to convince me of 
>little more than they are a danger to society. Regardless of their case they a
>re 
>the biggest argument for gun control, and therfore poor advocates of their 
>cause.    [...]

I'm sorry to see you say that, but rather then argue here I'll provide
a pointer to a fine set of arguments "A Nation of Cowards" by Jeffrey R. 
Snyder (the "nation" it refers to is the USA, not the UK).  Available
via the web <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~karl/firearms/cowards.html>, enjoy
or not.

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