1992-10-23 - Keystone “A provider of communications services cannot be held liable for the consequences of encrypted communications that pass though its system.”

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From: tribble@xanadu.com (E. Dean Tribble)
To: uunet!soda.berkeley.edu!hughes@uunet.UU.NET
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UTC Datetime: 1992-10-23 21:46:09 UTC
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From: tribble@xanadu.com (E. Dean Tribble)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 14:46:09 PDT
To: uunet!soda.berkeley.edu!hughes@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: Keystone  "A provider of communications services cannot be held liable for the consequences of encrypted communications that pass though its system."
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The Compuserver decision some months ago supported this indirectly:
Compuserver was held not liable for mail and postings on their system,
because they don't claim to read them.  I don't beleive Compuserve is
a common carrier, so the precedence supports the result you want.

dean

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• 1992-10-22 (Thu, 22 Oct 92 11:19:49 PDT) - re: Keystone - Tom.Jennings@f111.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Tom Jennings)
  • 1992-10-23 (Thu, 22 Oct 92 23:22:28 PDT) - Keystone - Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
    • 1992-10-23 (Fri, 23 Oct 92 00:28:19 PDT) - Re: Keystone - gnu@cygnus.com
      • 1992-10-23 (Fri, 23 Oct 92 10:27:18 PDT) - Keystone - Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
    • 1992-10-23 (Fri, 23 Oct 92 14:46:09 PDT) - Keystone “A provider of communications services cannot be held liable for the consequences of encrypted communications that pass though its system.” - tribble@xanadu.com (E. Dean Tribble)