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[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:31:16PM -0800, Eric wrote:
> >How will passing a law prevent or stop terrorists from having secure
> >communications?  Outlawing cryptography will have no effect on TERRORISTS
> >but it will effect ME!  The burden you speak of WILL NOT BE REMOVED by
> >outlawing the technology.  It will burden ME!
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> Your assertion that terrorists will not be negatively afffected or impeded
> by crypto restrictions is an assertion that is empirically based.  The pr=
oof
> is in the puddin', so to speak.  When the NSA or FBI says that cryptograh=
py
> restricts their ability to fight terrorism, I tend to believe them.  Do y=
ou
> not think that the NSA knows how to do its job?  Are you in a better
> position than the NSA to say whether cryptography allows secure
> communications between terrorists?  With all respect, I think not.

But the question still remains: how will passing a law stop terrorists from
using cryptography? A terrorist, by definition, would ignore the very laws
that are passed in the country they are attacking. So by passing a law that
prevents the law abiding populace from using secure communication (thereby
eliminating all secure communication in the country) would expose those that
are using secure communications as terrorists, would it not?

Following this assumption then, the statement that the NSA makes saying that
"cryptography restricts their ability to fight terrorism" is inaccurate;
rather, it's the underlying background noise of the general populace's use
of cryptography that restricts their ability to fight terrorism.

Are my assumptions correct, or am I <open mouth, insert foot>ing here? =3Dop

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
http://tank.dyndns.org

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