[extropy-chat] internet search privatizer

[Russell Wallace]

On 9/7/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> The fact is, encryption does
> enable crime.


As do automobiles, crowbars, baseball bats, telephones and the postal
service.  "X enables crime" is not an argument for making X illegal. The law
should be directed against the crime, not against the tool.

For instance, a group of criminals, terrorists or even ordinary angry
> citizens could arrange to form a flash mob to attack a person by showing
> up
> from all directions at a prearranged time and place, each hurling a single
> baseball at the victim.  Being beaned once is hardly dangerous, but what
> if
> 200 people each hurled one ball?  The flash mob would then disappear as
> quickly as it formed, wandering off in all directions.


They could but they didn't; and we didn't need Big Brother looking over our
shoulders to stop them.

...and this is one of those infinite-loop debates, I know, so I'll refrain
from commenting further on the subject :P
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