From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:39:35 +0800
To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: Re: What's really in PGP 5.5?
Message-ID: <199710100833.EAA24294@mx02.together.net>
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On 10/9/97 12:42 PM, Anonymous (anon@anon.efga.org)  passed this wisdom:

>It still satisfies the government's requirement to get routine 
>access to most email communications, and to allow criminals who 
>use standard email packages to be watched.

 This sums up the stupidity of the whole thing. The *only* thing the 
government achieves is invasion of honest people's privacy and catching a 
few stupid crooks who would most likely fuck up anyway and get caught if 
they are actually stupid enough to think government escrowed encryption 
is gonna hide their communications.


Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr
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