[Clips] Storm Brews Over Encryption 'Safe Harbor' in Data Breach Bills

[Ian G]

On Thursday 02 June 2005 19:28, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
> <http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,2533,a=153008,00.asp>
> Storm Brews Over Encryption 'Safe Harbor' in Data Breach Bills
> May 31, 2005

Just to make it more interesting, the AG of New York, Elliot Spitzer
has introduced a  package of legislation intended to "rein in identity theft"
including:

  Facilitating prosecutions against computer hackers by creating
  specific criminal penalties for the use of encryption to conceal
  a crime, to conceal the identity of another person who commits
  a crime, or to disrupt the normal operation of a computer;

Full PR is here:
https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000449.html

I'm hoping this was a trial balloon.

iang
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