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| | Wired News: Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws |
 | | During the early and mid 1990s, when e-mail was a rarity and good encryption programs even more scarce, it was easy for encryption's proponents to argue that terrorists and other malcontents were not cloaking their communications. |
 | | Now, with readily available applications like hushmail.com and PGP, crypto buffs are left with one less argument than before. |
 | | Matt Blaze, the AT&T Research scientist who was a chief critic of Clipper, said in an essay this week that: "I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists." |
| www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html (1506 words) |
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