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On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:01:45AM -0700, Justin Lindberg wrote:
> Excuse the Yahoo address. That's the best I can do here in the United States
> of Amerikkka. How is life in OpenBSD-land? The gummint dont trust me when
> I use OpenBSD because they don't have a clue what I'm doing when I'm at my
> computer. Even after they've read my code, and obtained all my passwords via
> rubber-hose cryptanalysis, and they're sitting at my keyboard staring at the
> hash
> prompt, they still don't have a clue what I am doing, and they think the
> problem
> can be solved by the more liberal use of rubber hoses.
>
> Oh, I was writing a letter to my attorney. But some people consider that to
> be
> illegal here in Amerikkka.
>
> They don't understand that when I am ready to release my software, I release
> it,
> and when it's released, it's released. That is my right under our First
> Amendment
> guarantee of freedom of speech and of the press. I think it works pretty
> similarly
> over there in Canada. When you've tested your code and you are ready, you
> commit it, and when it's committed, it's committed, and the rest of the team
> is
> free to tear it to shreds.
>
> The best defense to rubber-hose cryptanalysis is small pieces of lead, saboted
> and silenced and projected at high speed at anyone and everyone armed with a
> rubber hose. The Penguins over in Linux-land understand this very well. Do
> the
> Pufferfish? Because that's my right, too, under our Second Amendment
> guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms.
>
> So when I'm ready, I fire a shot, and when it's fired, it's fired, and there
> is no
> calling it back. And that's why I make dead certain that I am ready before I
> fire.
>
> Even if the U.S. Department of Defense considers computer cryptography to be a
> munition of war, then the right to use it is still protected, only under the
> Second
> Amendment rather than the First. Some communications are private,
> confidential,
> classified, or privileged and not obtainable with a warrant, and that is why
> we use
> cryptography here in the United States of America.
