quote o' the week 12/20/93

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 14:46:03 -0500
To: eff-staff () eff org, eff-board () eff org
From: ssimpson () eff org (Sarah Simpson)
Subject: quote o' the week 12/20/93


"Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry
can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through
scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of
research that can be done in those areas."


--Adm. Bobby R. Inman in a February, 1982 article for _Aviation Week and
Space Technology_ on why cryptographic research should be limited to
government scientists.  Full text of this article is available for
anonymous ftp from ftp.eff.org as pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/inman.article.