[Cryptography] hard to trust all those root CAs

[ianG]

On 26/07/2014 23:48 pm, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> The comment I heard on this from a very experienced, very tech-savvy lawyer was:  I would have loved to take this case back when I was a prosecutor (making it quite clear that he was sure he would win).
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> The prosecutor's view will be:  *You* deliberately put yourself in a situation where to obey the law requires you to keep publishing. It's not the law's problem. You get to live with the consequences of your decisions. 


Ah.  So if you publish you are in breach of your contract (your
problem), if stop publishing you are in breach of the law.  Got it.

And in general, contempt of court, because you deliberately put yourself
in a situation to break the law.

iang