[Clips] Can writing software be a crime?

[Mark Allen Earnest]

On Oct 5, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Steve Furlong wrote:
>
> For now. But, as has been asked before by people I used to consider
> paranoid, how long before the US government considers a PGP keyring or
> an encrypted partition to be prima facie evidence of criminalty?
>


This has already happened, albeit in a kiddy porn case.

http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/ 
2100-1030_3-5718978.html

Mark Earnest
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