IP: need for cyber mental services for the congress

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 04:57:03 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Anonymous <nobody () replay com>
>
> Subject: Privacy Tax
> To: cypherpunks () toad com
> Sender: owner-cypherpunks () toad com
>
> > A TAX BREAK FOR SNOOPABLE CODE
> > Rep. Porter Goss introduced last week the "Tax Relief for
> > Responsible Encryption Act", or HR 2616, which proposes that
> > companies producing encryption software receive a 15 percent tax
> > break should they make the software government-snoopable, or
> > accessible with a secret key.  The argument made by Goss and his
> > supporters is that many criminals, such as pedophiles, drug
> > smugglers, and money launderers, conduct their illegal business
> > undetected over the Internet every day. (Wired News 07/30/99)