IP: need for cyber mental services for the congress

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 04:57:03 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
>
>Subject: Privacy Tax
>To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
>
> >A TAX BREAK FOR SNOOPABLE CODE
> >Rep. Porter Goss introduced last week the "Tax Relief for
> >Responsible Encryption Act", or HR 2616, which proposes that
> >companies producing encryption software receive a 15 percent tax
> >break should they make the software government-snoopable, or
> >accessible with a secret key.  The argument made by Goss and his
> >supporters is that many criminals, such as pedophiles, drug
> >smugglers, and money launderers, conduct their illegal business
> >undetected over the Internet every day. (Wired News 07/30/99)