At 12:08 PM 9/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
>>There are a number of reasons to keep one's anominity.   In the past if
>>I wanted anonominity I would work under a pseudonym.  Oh, if someone
>
>You list some good reasons.  But whether or not to restrict anonymity
>services, cryptography, steganography, etc. is not simply a matter of
>listing benefits of these technologies.  Rather, it is weighing the benefits
>of those technologies against the burdens imposed.  And right now, the
>burden of terrorists having secure communications seems pretty heavy.

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!

Alan