Dangers of Remailers

Anyone who believes that PGP/Mix or other military-grade encrypted
messages and their authors are magically "exempt" from government
decryption and surveillance, respectively, then they're misinformed.

Clinton legalized the public use of RSA and PGP encryption against the
wishes of the NSA and Republican congress. You know nothing, idiot.

John Schoenfeld wrote:

Anyone who believes that PGP/Mix or other military-grade encrypted
messages and their authors are magically "exempt" from government
decryption and surveillance, respectively, then they're
misinformed.


Clinton legalized the public use of RSA and PGP encryption against
the wishes of the NSA and Republican congress. You know nothing,
idiot.


Dumbass:

PGP never was illegal, and the argument over making it illegal went
across party lines. Neither side covered themselves with glory. But the
Clinton administration backed off of its own proposals to outlaw or
strictly regulate internet encryption:

"Representatives Bob Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia,
and Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, took a
libertarian stance earlier this year when they
introduced a bill they called Security and Freedom
through Encryption. The legislation, known by the
acronym SAFE, would have liberalized export controls to
allow the United States software industry to compete
internationally, and it would have added new criminal
penalties for anyone who used encryption in the
commission of a crime. It quickly attracted more than
250 co-sponsors.

But under heavy lobbying by the Clinton administration,
SAFE has met increased resistance. Committees have
gutted key provisions and added language that would
sharply increase encryption regulations for Americans."

(New York Times Op-ed piece 9/24/97)

And the following day in the News section:

"WASHINGTON The House Commerce Committee put the brakes on a
fast-moving plan to put the first-ever domestic controls on data
scrambling technology, rejecting 35 to 16 a Federal Bureau of
Investigation-backed proposal to require all American computer
users to register the codes to their encrypted software."

This committee by the way was in a Republican-controlled house.

So pull your head out. And stop dismissing others who simply disagree
with you, you butthole. Your view of history seems a bit misguided to
smugly call other people names.

C

starburst wrote:
John Schoenfeld wrote:

Anyone who believes that PGP/Mix or other military-grade encrypted
messages and their authors are magically "exempt" from government
decryption and surveillance, respectively, then they're
misinformed.


Clinton legalized the public use of RSA and PGP encryption against
the wishes of the NSA and Republican congress. You know nothing,
idiot.


Dumbass:

PGP never was illegal, and the argument over making it illegal went
across party lines. Neither side covered themselves with glory. But
the
Clinton administration backed off of its own proposals to outlaw or
strictly regulate internet encryption:

"Representatives Bob Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia,
and Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, took a
libertarian stance earlier this year when they
introduced a bill they called Security and Freedom
through Encryption. The legislation, known by the
acronym SAFE, would have liberalized export controls to
allow the United States software industry to compete
internationally, and it would have added new criminal
penalties for anyone who used encryption in the
commission of a crime. It quickly attracted more than
250 co-sponsors.

But under heavy lobbying by the Clinton administration,
SAFE has met increased resistance. Committees have
gutted key provisions and added language that would
sharply increase encryption regulations for Americans."

(New York Times Op-ed piece 9/24/97)

And the following day in the News section:

"WASHINGTON The House Commerce Committee put the brakes on a
fast-moving plan to put the first-ever domestic controls on data
scrambling technology, rejecting 35 to 16 a Federal Bureau of
Investigation-backed proposal to require all American computer
users to register the codes to their encrypted software."

This committee by the way was in a Republican-controlled house.

So pull your head out. And stop dismissing others who simply disagree

with you, you butthole. Your view of history seems a bit misguided to

smugly call other people names.

C

It was drafted by a Republican and legalized under the Clinton
administration (one of the few things done right). The bill was
supported by a minority of republicans, by the way. You should look
into government policy prior 1998.