CNN.com - Encryption backers brace for new threats - Mar. 31, 2003
The Justice Department is circulating draft documents that would add 5 years onto any crime committed with the use of digital encryption technology.
Pro-Quote:
"If you went the extra step to keep us from getting evidence, you should pay an extra price," said Jimmy Doyle, a former computer crimes investigator with the New York Police Department."
Anti-Quote:
"Why should the fact that you use encryption have anything to do with how guilty you are and what the punishment should be?" asks Stanton McCandlish of the CryptoRights Foundation, which teaches human rights workers to use encryption. "Should we have enhanced penalties because someone wore an overcoat?"
Thoughts?
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