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crime would use
cryptography'; but criminals with guns is the generalization.

If you were a criminal, would you select cryptography that is 'Key Recovery'
("GAK" Government Access to Keys) compliant?

I don't think so.

"But we'll catch stupid criminals using GAK crypto!"
---Scott Charney, Computer Crime Unit, Department of Justice,
at 5/22/97 NYC cryptography conference

And equally stupid Congress members will support that logic.


The subject of law enforcement v. guns brings up a subtopic:

Burn Baby Burn
---- ---- ----

I was watching MSNBC's "Time and Again" with Jane Pauley, and they went over
the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the "Symbionese Liberation Army".

The terrorists kept Ms. Hearst locked in a closet so small she couldn't move.

They would play games with her head, like suddenly dragging her out of the
closet, hold a gun to her head, and sometimes pull the trigger (on an empty
chamber).

Then they started screwing her. Again and again.

They took complete control of a sweet young college kid. The government knows
how that works. Yet the government charged her with bank robbery even though
she was under their mental control.

She had renounced her rich parents and taken a new name.

Happens all the time.

The FBI called her a 'common criminal'.

Then put her on their Top Ten Wanted List.

Maybe they thought she had taken Terrorism 101 at school and
ambitiously decided to start robbing banks of her own accord.

Anyway, there was an episode before they caught her where six
members of the SLA were armed and wholed up in a house.

Outcome?

Five of them were burned to death.

How did the house get set on fire?

A tear gas grenade.

They apparently cannot be deployed without setting a place on fire?

If a place gets set on fire, and the government has many guns pointed at
you, you might