thought from the net

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 14:02:41 PDT
Subject: From the Net
To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu


Dave


Great thoughts from the net


Jim
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Jim,


Won't it appear a bit ironic that by the year 2001, the US government  
will have imprisoned thousands of its own citizens for sending  
encrypted messages around to each other and all under the guise that  
they are "enemies" of the State?  To encrypt or not to encrypt, that  
will be the fundamental battle cry of the First Amendment of the  
approaching 21st Century's Digital Bill of Rights. 




And to think we won the Cold War to protect ourselves from the evil  
tyranny of a socialist police-state. At the rate we're going, we're  
locking up so many of our own citizens that we'll have invested more  
in bricks and mortar as to build a thousand-times as many Berlin  
Walls.