From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@polaris.mindport.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 95 16:20:57 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Scientology tries to break PGP - and fails?
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On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Alan Westrope wrote:

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> 
> Tonight's local news included an interesting blurb about this case.
> The judge refused to order Wollersheim to disclose his passphrase,
> since the encrypted material comprised names of Co$ critics
> who could then be targeted by the Church.  And the secret (and
> copyright!) $criptures were read in court and excerpts broadcast
> on the news, "close-captioned for the hearing-impaired."

Anyone have the name of this action, the court it was in or the name of 
the judge?  I would very much like to see a transcript of his order.

> 
> All the entertaining stuff some of us have been reading on the
> net was there:  aliens transported to earth, volcanoes h-bombed,
> thetans...I laughed my ass off.  A bigtime win for PGP and encryption
> generally, and a major PR debacle for the $cienos.
> 
> Kute Korrespondences Koda:
> 
> Tomorrow, Sept. 9, there will be protests worldwide at Co$ centers.
> I was cleaning out some paperwork and disk file archives recently,
> and noticed that the ViaCrypt and Austin Code Works subpoenas were
> dated Sept. 9, 1993.  Grady Ward of ACW has, of course, been a
> major Co$ antagonist, making good use of PGP and the Cypherpunks
> remailers.  The old message I found detailing these subpoenas was
> from this list's sometime visionary, L. Detweiler.
> 
> Alan Westrope                  <awestrop@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
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