From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 13 16:14:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C65314E0C for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:14:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id QAA26631; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:14:35 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA27534; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:14:35 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id QAA16438; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:13:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387E6B49.4FFAABF9@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:18:17 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher R. Bowman" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source References: <85j9fc$1mso$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Christopher R. Bowman" wrote: > > The last paragraph would be a step in the right direction but still seems > silly. What are they going to do with it? I would really like to see people > educate them on the stupidity of sending code to Washington. I think it would > be neat if there was one of those blue ribbon campaign where on a flag day > every one put all the open source encryption programs they could find up on > their web pages, and then sent them to Washington, one to a floppy > disk/envelope. It would be kinda neat if 1, 5, 10 or even a hundred thousand > little envelopes with 1 floppy a piece showed up it the appropriate Washington > office on the same day. Wonder how long the silly send a copy to Washington > rule would remain after that. Forever. You are making the mistake of thinking they play to do something with all of this information. They do not, they play to print it out on greenbar paper and store it in some warehouse somewhere, along with all the extra B-17 toilet seats and WWI-vintage helmets and other piles of useless crap they own. Never underestimate the silliness of a beauracracy, for it is boundless. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message