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# "society of suspects."
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War #2 - Guns
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# www.gunowners.org
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# The Police even pointed a machine gun at the
# head of Mrs. Kuriatnk's six-year-old daughter.
Actually, I think the government says 'because organized crime would use
cryptography'; but criminals with guns is the generalization.
If you were a criminal, would you select cryptography that is 'Key
Recovery'
("GAK" Government Access to Keys) compliant?
I don't think so.
"But we'll catch stupid criminals using GAK crypto!"
---Scott Charney, Computer Crime Unit, Department of Justice,
at 5/22/97 NYC cryptography conference
And equally stupid Congress members will sup****t that logic.
The subject of law enforcement v. guns brings up a subtopic:
Burn Baby Burn
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I was watching MSNBC's "Time and Again" with Jane Pauley, and they went
over
the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the "Symbionese Liberation Army".
The terrorists kept Ms. Hearst locked in a closet so small she couldn't
move.
They would play games with her head, like suddenly dragging her out of the
closet, hold a gun to her head, and sometimes pull the trigger (on an
empty
chamber).
Then they started screwing her. Again and again.
They took complete control of a sweet young college kid. The
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