From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 08:31:58 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: sooner or later
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Tim May wrote:
>At 10:45 PM -0700 9/18/97, Wei Dai wrote:
>
>>3. A ban will eventually be lifted, because of the impracticality of GAK,
>>abuses, wide-spread security problems caused by added complexity or
>>hackers stealing the master keys, ineffectiveness, sympathetic courts etc.
>>The sooner it comes into effect, the sooner it goes away.
>
>You mean like the way the ban on drugs was impractical and could be skirted
>in various ways, forcing the ban on drugs to "go away"?

I understand alcohol is legal now, so it worked once for one drug.

The drugs ban isn't all that meaningful, anyway.  You can go into any
major U.S. city without any connections and score crack within three
hours if you look the part and know what you are doing.  I've known
many drug users and abusers over many years and none have gone to
jail.

Software doesn't weigh anything and it doesn't take up much space.
Trafficking is trivial.  The flow of tools will not stop.

What will stop is open development by the software industry and this
will cause irreparable damage.  Fortunately, the industry does form a
wealthy constituency.  If it becomes clear that restricting particular
classes of algorithm significantly hampers business, look to seeing
these bans lifted.

Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.html

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