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Date:      Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:18:53 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        cjclark@home.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: US Encryption Export Rules Loosen
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990916231554.047bd210@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199909170236.WAA00671@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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See the San Jose Mercury News (www.sjmercury.com) for good coverage.

By the way, we shouldn't stand up and applaud just yet. It turns out
that the Commerce Department still wants to approve each product
individually, even though a Federal judge (Patel) has ruled that this
is a prior restraint on free speech and thus violates the First Amendment.
What's more, they want to know who all of your customers are; they
require you to give them information about EVERY exported copy. So
much for anonymous FTP downloads across the Net.

--Brett

At 10:36 PM 9/16/99 -0400, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>I was really surprised when I checked my mail and did not see a flood
>of comments on Clinton's moves to relax the export limits today. Did
>he know he was going to lose in Congress, or did he finally fold under
>the computer lobby's pressures and Gore's funding needs?
>
>...And finally, anyone have a URL or other sources with what exactly
>the new plans for the rules are?
>--
>Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
>
>
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