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Re: no visas for Chinese cryptologists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hasan Diwan)
Wed Aug 17 22:06:02 2005
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From: Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:52:13 -0700
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On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> The visa snag angered organizers of the annual meeting of the
> International Cryptology Conference, who argued that restrictions
> originally created to prevent the transfer of advanced technologies
> from the United States are now having the opposite effect.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that America lives under the
assumption that progress does not and can not happen anywhere else.
Furthermore, other countries are forever indebted to the US for
sharing the fruits of technology that they themselves cannot develop.
Signs of this fantasy are everywhere. Whether it's export controls on
cryptography or the "exporting of Democracy", Americans think they
are the only can-do people. It's high time they woke up and realised
this is no longer, and perhaps never has been, reality.
I was reading an article regarding FreeNet and the newer peer-to-peer
file sharing systems and was struck that not a single US citizen was
represented among those interviewed -- there were Irish, Dutch, and
Japanese experts interviewed. And this was in a US paper to boot.
The mobile phone was not invented here, indeed deployment of wireless
lags about 20 years behind the rest of the world. Increasingly,
progress is taking place elsewhere and if the US wants to maintain
its fantasy, it will need a Ministry of Truth to do so.
Cheers,
Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@gmail.com>
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