Re: [freenet-dev] US government tries to bring back the Clipper Chip - on steroids

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On Tuesday 28 September 2010 00:02:32 Ian Clarke wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html?_r=3D1&src=3DISMR_HP_=
LO_MST_FB
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> Its a proposal that would force all communication providers, including
> software providers, to provide a back-door to enable wire-tapping.
>=20
> I strongly suspect it will go the way of the failed "Clipper chip" of the
> 90s.  I also think that there is a strong first-amendment argument that
> requiring that communication software include a back-door is an infringem=
ent
> of the first-amendment rights of the software author.
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> In short, expect a major backlash.
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> That being said, if it does go through it will force us to move any
> Freenet-related development out of the US, unless we want to make it a
> test-case.  It may even mean that I need to give up my role as project
> coordinator should I decide to remain in the United States.
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> Whatever happens, the one thing that will never be an option is compliance
> with this law (even if Freenet's current developers went insane and agreed
> to install a back-door, the project would be forked in a millisecond).
>=20
> I expected better from Obama's administration.

One very bad thing about this, should it pass (which depends mostly on whet=
her the Tea Party folk actually defend the constitution, which seems unlike=
ly) and be upheld (which is a more plausible battleground) is that we are d=
ependant on paypal. Even if we move outside the US, paypal would have to ki=
ck us, and nobody trusts any other service. Same would be true of Google Ch=
eckout; we might be able to get credit card handling from some non-US-based=
 bank (like WorldPay), but it'd be expensive.

Plus once it happens in the US it will happen everywhere else... Combined w=
ith laws in Europe allowing blocking copyright infringing sites (xenu.net? =
wikileaks.org?), things could get very bad.

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