From: geeman <NOSPAM-geeman@best.com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 00:08:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: SAFE Bill is a Disaster--"Use a cipher, go to prison"
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In that case, it counts as an improvement indeed.


At 10:48 PM 4/30/97 -0700, Anil Das wrote:
>On Apr 30, 10:23pm, geeman wrote:
>> Subject: Re: SAFE Bill is a Disaster--"Use a cipher, go to prison"
>>
>> I'd like to point out that the key phrase in there seems to be
>> "under any law in effect on the effective date of this chapter"  -- altho
>> it's gobbledegooked,
>> the intent seems to say "if there is no law in effect mandating GAK when
>> this bill becomes
>> law, there can never be a law passed which does"  Or in other words, it has
>> the effect of making
>> GAK no better, or worse, than under current law, while preventing passage
>> of GAK laws in the future.
>
>	Agreed, except for one subtle correction. Congress cannot
>make a law saying a future congress cannot make such and such a law,
>because the future congress can always repeal, amend or override the
>old law. So, what this section does is to make GAK through an
>executive order impossible.
>
>--
>Anil Das
>
>
>