Re: laws and stuff, was: Re: [xine-devel] preparing for 0.9.1

[James <ja...@pi...>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Heiko Schaefer wrote:

> i agree that the ifo topic is not as hot as all this stupid scrambling
> stuff - but i urge everyone to consider how the courts (and not only in
> the u.s.) are generally very unpredictable in everything related to
> computers, internet-related stuff or hacking (yep, i mostly intend the

A good example of this is last Tuesday's terrorism. Everyone's going
bonkers because it's maybe possbile that they could have perhaps used the
internet, and they might have even could have sort of maybe used
encryption and now want everyone's email monitored, and backdoors in
encryption. However you don't see them wanting to tap everyone's phones or
open everyone's mail since they understand phones and paper mail.