Re: Repression in Austria over PGP keys

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Steven J. Manning [sjmanning () fymc com]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:54 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] Repression in Austria over PGP keys

Homework is indispensable....

Good morning, Dave.

For IP if you wish....

Richard Forno's article is interesting more for its insufficiencies than substance.  And for its uniquely limited focus.

First, Mr. Forno focuses on the "PGP" component of the matter.  Perhaps that is the relevancy that can tie the story to 
your uniquely well informed and positioned readers.  This reader, at least, would benefit from a bit of homework on 
this event.  What activities were the alleged wrongdoers engaged in to provoke such regulatory action.  Or 
over-reaction.

On the ubiquitous *other side*, as to "action" by Austrian law enforcement, and this may or may not be germane to Mr. 
Forno's thesis, Austrian laws provide a plethora of draconian enforcement powers for its various law enforcement 
agencies.  And do so for a variety of "criminal enterprises".

The methodology is more that a bit schizophrenic.  On one hand, Austria has and continues to tolerate remnants of its 
remarkably bloody WWII past.  On the other, it is highly unwise for its neo-nazzi, skin-head youth to hold a rally 
without a proper license.  Their riot police do not use rubber bullets.

Perhaps Mr. Forno can enlighten us about the activities of this group that elicited this rather typical law enforcement 
response.  Then we can all be indignant for all the right reasons, including rights to privacy, presumption of 
innocence and all that.

Please know that I write this with a very large measure of bias.  AGAINST THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT.  I am an offspring 
of holocaust survivors and my business activities have taken me to Austria numerous times in the past two decades.  In 
modern parlance, BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.  And hated it.

Thank you, Dave.

Steve.


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