From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 12 17:32: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A0B237B40B for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 49003 invoked by uid 100); 13 Sep 2001 00:31:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15263.65151.364605.802268@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:31:59 -0500 To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Repercussions (Was: Helping victims of terror) In-Reply-To: <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> References: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Moran types: > On a more FreeBSD related note, do you think this will provoke the US > government to create restrictions hurtful to the free software community? > Such as crypto restrictions, or new laws allowing the government to invade > our privacy as we use the internet? All in the name of "protecting the country > from possible terrorist threats?" Could pgp be outlawed? This has generated a lot of public emotion. Everyone with an agenda is going to try and channel that to further their goals. I've already heard public officials nattering about the current ineffectiveness of the US intelligence community, the poor record of government employees have at keeping secrets, and the dangers inherent in encryption technology that the police forces can't easily crack. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message