how long will GAK licensing remain `voluntary' (Re: UK crypto policy announcement today at 3:30pm)

[Carl Ellison]

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At 11:04 PM 4/27/98 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
>Watch out for the `voluntariness' to be eroded over time -- it being
>used as the thin edge of the wedge, same as in the US where gradually
>FBI rhetoric has been shifting to mandatory (if voluntary doesn't work
>-- and it won't work by definition -- mobsters and drug barrons won't
>use GAKed systems).

I'm not up on words for logic flaws.  Which one might apply to that last
thought?

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If X then Y.

X, as you pointed out, will always be true, independent of Y.

Y, in turn, will always be true, independent of X.

The real statement may be "continue to give us more power over the citizenry 
until mobsters and drug barrons make our understanding and tracking of their 
conversations easy".

 - Carl

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