Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:39:13 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: US Encryption Export Rules Loosen Message-ID: <000201bf00d7$5b518120$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990916231554.047bd210@localhost>
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I think much of the absence of commentary is due to a sensible 'wait and see' attitude. That a bit of 'I'll believe it when I see it'. I don't think the war to regain our privacy is over yet. DS > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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