Re: That's it. I'm going to the police.

Part 4: Why unlimited cryptography must be legislated NOW
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o Key Recovery Means No Cryptography
o Key Recovery Isn't Even Feasible
o Government Steamroller
o Feds' Wacky Pro-GAK Logic
- Business Will Demand It
- To Safeguard Your Privacy


* C-SPAN [U.S. Congressional television coverage], Friday June 20, 1997
* Marc Andreessen, Netscape Co-founder
*
* "The McCain-Kerrey bill is completely flawed. Unlimited strength crypto
* has been available for years worldwide over the Internet and from some
* companies. Terrorists and other criminals already have it.
*
* The genie is out of the bottle.
*
* The only thing the McCain-Kerrey bill does is cripple American companies'
* abilities to compete worldwide."


As FBI director Louis Freeh said: "We are at a crossroads."

Indeed we are.

Netscape has had to ink a deal with a German crypto company.
Sun has arranged a third-party deal in Europe too.
RSA has announced similar plans.

It is estimated the U.S. crypto companies and employees will lose four billion
dollars by the year 2000.


But as you know, there is a larger concern too.

The level of our nakedness before the
government's massive surveillance systems.

* Privacy: Experience, Understanding, Expression
*


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