Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 22438
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9/13    Well, the anti-crypto people are at it again:
        http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html
        \_ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
           safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin:
           Motto of the Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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