Re: Encryption?

[Cipher <cipher@mindspring.com>]

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On  11/29/99, batz logged on  and ended up relaying this through a
little-known Microsoft open mail server to the North Korean Central
Committee who in turn forwarded it to me:
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> People are tiring of victims. Compassion as an industry has gone the
> way of the telethon. There is a seige mentality that can be more effectively
> pandered to. The ACLU is all for crypto, why isn't the NRA in on this?
> Heavily armed sociopaths or not, they are a powerful lobby whose
> members interests are served by freely available crypto.
>
> The ACLU can argue that crypto is protected speech, and the NRA
> can argue that strong, un-escrowed crypto, under existing classifications,
> could fall within their right to bear arms. (What with the British being
> such a threat to the american way of life these days.)

Thanks, you've given me focus.  The NRA will become my target audience.  I
just need to dig up that reference to crypto being classified as munitions.
Commerce I think...





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