Reply to post: Re: Here's an Idea

US Senator Ron Wyden to Pentagon: Encrypt your websites

Bill Gray

Re: Here's an Idea

You jest, but I do wonder if you may be on to something here.

I would submit to the Court that encryption has been subject to weapons export restrictions under US law in the past. In effect, it is already the stance of the US Government that encryption is a weapon. Further, the language of the Second Amendment (the bit about "a well-regulated Militia") makes it clear that the intent of its authors was to ensure the ability of citizens and individual States to resist tyranny. Communicating without governmental eavesdropping is clearly important to that ability.

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