Hi
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From: "Elaine -HFB- Ashton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It is futile to legislate morals, in fact pointless, but in a
civilised
> society one should hope that people behave appropriately.
'It is futile to legislate morals'
With a phrase so tossed off, you've claimed the work of every
legislative body in this country is pointless [in your own mind]. Why
enact a law agaist child pornography if it's not morality? Every peice
of legislation has a basis in morality of some kind.
> I have often wondered what might happen if someone released tools to
make
> all currently available encryption algorithms easily breakable with a
pc,
> quickly and easily.
Oh, they try all the time. The cryptographers have taken sufficient
care, and worked in AN OPEN FRAMEWORK OUTSIDE OF COPYRIGHT to ensure
that this was not possible. It might all change tomorrow, but I consider
it unlikely.
> It's a brave new world, things will be rough until
> people become more interested in solving the problem agreeably instead
of
> fighting.
Or as long as people keep trying to legislate 21st centruy technology
while relying on 19th century concepts of property.
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