On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 05:49:59PM -0400, Pete Toscano thus spoke:
> well, at the risk of getting a little too political, all you americans
> on this list who feel that these encryption laws are inane should check
> out this site: http://www.computerprivacy.com/. i question the
> effectiveness of contacting legislators at all, but it's worth a shot.
There's also www.defendyourprivacy.com that addresses an even broader range
of issues. There are no shortage of lobbying groups...the problem is,
they're all worthless when the public-at-large doesn't 1) know anything
about encryption (or much less -real- computing, for that matter), and 2) is
apathetic to anything that doesn't affect their wallets. And if the public
is bad, the actual legislators are even worse, prone to near-ignorance and
knee-jerk legislation borne of fear of the unknown or rumoured. (The CDA
clauses struck down were a good example.)
When we're not allowed to lock the doors to our cars and homes and are
subject to raids at 1am, someone -might- get alarmed and vote against
someone in charge...maybe.
Of course, by then it'll be too late...IMHO it's already too late.
But yeah...this is getting political. Sorry for raising the question...I
should have just let Telsa's post alone (although I'm slightly less
ignorant now, for having questioned it). Sorry to have troubled the rest
of you with the off-topic-ness of it all.
mark->
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