From: Scott Brickner <sjb@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 09:21:07 PDT
To: Brad Dolan <bdolan@use.usit.net>
Subject: Re: Spooks and Hackers, etc.
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Brad Dolan writes
>"We need to see that police are surfing the Internet just as other people
>are," Doyle said. "This is a good example of where the law is slower than
>technology."

Duh!  Isn't the law *supposed* to be slower than technology?  It would
take a *complete* idiot to try to make a law about, say, intelligent
programs or uploads or whatever.  It's when law wants to be *faster*
than technology that we get stupidity like the CDA.