[Cryptography] EFF amicus brief in support of Apple

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Fri Mar 4 17:40:25 EST 2016


In article <CAB7TAMmZYSoqm2YS53QGb_kUZMqJnAar6YJjh1SZU05iQG0ing at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>I'm not sold on the "code is speech" argument.  Building a utilitarian,
>non-expressive machine is not speech.  Building a utilitarian,
>non-expressive machine that contains code does not turn either the machine
>nor the code into speech.

The argument in the EFF brief is much more subtle than "code is
speech".  You can read it here:

https://www.eff.org/files/2016/03/03/16cm10sp_eff_apple_v_fbi_amicus_court_stamped.pdf

R's,
John


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