From: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed@best.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:13:22 +0800
To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: Re: How the FBI/NSA forces can further twist SAFE
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At 7:17 PM -0700 9/25/97, Syniker@aol.com wrote:
>I'm all for the year... get more people
>using crypto everyday...

This is why holding actions help. Confusing Congress enough to delay taking
up encryption bans may eventually win the war, if in the time between
enough people begin to use and understand encryption that politicians see a
downside in upsetting that many voters by deleting their privacy.

I believe the same factors worked for us in the recent CDA/net-censorship
battles.

--
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you recover your keys."