> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Dave Emery > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 21:28 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Crypto in a crime appears about to become law > > > S 2448, the Schumer-Hatch Internet Integrity and Critical > Infrastructure Protection Act of 2000 which amoung many other things > seriously raises criminal penalties for cracking into systems and lowers > the standards for federal prosecution for such cases (and makes it > possible to seize the house a computer used in a hacking attack was > located in), also includes this new language of interest to those > concerned with the public's right to use cryptography... Schumer is an ultra-fascist, as evidenced plain-as-day by his numerous anti-firearm legislative activities and the positions he took during the Waco hearings. Seeing a crypto-in-a-crime provision sponsored by Schumer is about par. Less than par actually. I am surprised he isn't calling for an outright ban of assault crypto. Guess he's holding this in reserve for "Phase II". --Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography, pg 446 http://www.citizensofamerica.org/missing.ram
