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Senator Backs Down On Crypto Backdoors

Posted by timothy on from the feints-and-reversals dept.

evenprime writes: " Sen. Judd Gregg (Republican, New Hampshire) was advocating mandatory backdoors in crypto on Sept. 13. Wired is now reporting that Sen. Gregg has changed his mind. They say that Gregg's spokesman, Brian Hart, has said: 'We are not working on an encryption bill and have no intention to.'" As Rob Carlson is quoted at the article's close, though: "(Gregg) said he was definitely supporting it. Now he says he's definitely not. Maybe he'll say he's definitely supporting it again."

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  1. Re:a win for the U.S. System of Government by dstone · · Score: 2, Troll

    the current campaigns against Afghanisatan do not qualify

    Only time will tell. We still hear estimates that vary by an order of magnitude regarding the political, military, and civilian lives lost in Iraq in the Gulf War. A couple of weeks after it's "over", nobody really cares what the death toll over there really was.

    As far as your comment about "bloody, military vengence," you should use words like that more carefully

    Maybe there's a better military definition of bloody vengeance that specifies how many must be killed before it's considered "bloody". I'm not aware of it. As far as the "vengeance" part goes, well, the Cowboy President and his people have spoken and they're coming back with heads on platters. All in the name of proven crimes, mind you.

    Just calling it as I see it.