From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 06:04:27 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks)
Subject: what's a weapon? (fwd)
Message-ID: <199607291733.NAA02778@nrk.com>
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Newsletter of the IEEE Computer Society's TC on Security and Privacy
Electronic Issue 16       July 28, 1996        Carl Landwehr, Editor
                                        Hilarie Orman, Assoc. Editor
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Drawing an analogy with encryption and US ITAR, a poster reported that
A piper is being taken to court for practicing on Hampstead Heath,
which has a by-law forbidding music. Mr Brooks, the piper, has denied
the charge. He claims he wasn't playing a musical instrument, but
practicing with a weapon. In 1746 in England, bagpipes were declared to
be instruments of war, not musical weapons, and a subsequent Act of
Parliament specifically stated that they were weapons.


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