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“He couldn’t understand why he couldn’t shoot his own computer in his own home…” I guess I see his point.

As part of the Defense Authorization Bill for FY 1994, the U.S. Congress has asked the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake a study of national policy with respect to the use and regulation of cryptography. The report of the study committee is due two years after all necessary security clearances have been processed, probably sometime summer 1996, and is subject to NRC review procedures. The legislation states that 120 days after the day on which the report is submitted to the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary shall submit the report to the Committees on Armed Services, Intelligence, Commerce, and the Judiciary of the Senate and House of Representatives in unclassified form, with classified annexes as necessary.

PASSAIC TWP. — A Gillette man was arrested at his home last Thursday

> >night after he fired eight bullets at his home computer, according to
> >police. The man, Michael A. Case, 35, of 64 Summit Ave., was arrested
> >shortly after 11 p.m., at his house, when police said they received a
> >report that shots were fired. They arrived at the home to find a .44
> >Magnum automatic handgun and a shot-up IBM personal computer with a
> >Princeton Graphics System monitor. The monitor screen was blown out by
> >the blasts and its inner workings were visible, Lt. Donald Van Tassel
> >said on Monday. The computer, which had bullet holes in its hardware,
> >was hit four times while four more bullet holes were found in various
> >areas next to the computer, Van Tassel said. “The only thing he (Case)
> >said was that he was mad at his computer so he shot it,” Van Tassel
> >said. The handgun, which the lieutenant identified as an Israeli Arms
> >Desert Eagle .44, has “a lot of firepower,” he said. “It’s a big gun.”