From: harka@nycmetro.com
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 17:43:34 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: More on the Jim Bell
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 -=> Quoting In:alan@ctrl-alt-del.com to Harka <=-

 In> The news story was a pretty interesting hatchet job.  Included
 In> a number of horsemen and prominently mentioned encryption.
 In> They claimed that the reason for the raid on East's home was
 In> because he sent Bell encrypted messages containing various
 In> evil and unauthorized thoughts.

 In> Why am I not surprised...

Why am I surprised...How the hell did they know, what the messages
were about??
(Unless Jim saved his e-mails in plain-text to his hard drive,
didn't bother to use SFS or something similar and all this stuff was
recovered as a result of the initial search of his house. In which
case a lot of list-members might want to start thinking about
various possibilities...)

Ciao

Harka

... This is as bad as it can get -- but don't bet on it.

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If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...