From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 04:05:23 +0800
To: declan@well.com
Subject: Re: Coalition letter opposing Oxley amendment -- from Apple toUSWest
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Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> writes:
> Lucky Green writes:
> >I don't know if I should be happy or sad about Declan's recent tone of
> >writing. "Forget about working /with/ DC". I certainly never wanted to be
> >right. There was a time Declan at least hoped that /some/ good might come
> >out of DC. It doesn't seem he thinks this anymore.
> 
> [case by case examples where tbe best thing US government could do
> is repeal laws]
> 
> All in all, these issues require minimal action or no action. Especially on
> encryption: this Congress will never take a pro-crypto approach. The law
> enforcement lobbyists are simply too strong and too effective. No new laws
> are better than bad new laws.

I'd interpret that lot to mean the best possible outcome would be to
disband Congress tomorrow.

Now where'd I put that deskfab 6 file.

Adam
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