<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 7:41 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-9169202104142239597WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"> <br><u></u></p></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-9169202104142239597WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> I see little difference between Assange publishing the Manning documents and the New York Times and Washington Post publishing the Pentagon Papers in 1971.</i></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">One could argue the two actions display different degrees of wisdom but as far as rights are concerned I agree with you, there is no difference. In related news from the wonderful world of fascism Germany is pushing for a law that would require every cryptographic program in the country to have a backdoor in it that the government can use whenever it wants to know what you're up to. Australia has done the same thing; when it was pointed out to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that the laws of mathematics tell us that it is impossible to have a cryptographic system strong enough to keep the bad guys out but weak enough to let the government in replied: </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><i>"</i></font></span><font size="4"><i>Well the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia."</i></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">As for the current hillbilly president of the USA, he's been trying to do the same thing for years: </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://boingboing.net/2017/11/09/wanting-it-both-ways.html"> "Strong" encryption that government can break at will</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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