[103945] in Cypherpunks
Re: Web TV with 128b exported
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Glave)
Tue Oct 6 23:14:56 1998
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 19:56:55 -0700
To: Information Security <guy@panix.com>
From: James Glave <james@wired.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199810070119.VAA23135@panix7.panix.com>
Reply-To: James Glave <james@wired.com>
># http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/981005/ca_microso_1.html
>#
># William Reinsch, U.S. undersecretary for export administration:
># ``The WebTV Network provides secure communications for its
># customers and partners without posing undue risks to
># national security and law enforcement.''
>
>Either it is interceptable and decodable or it isn't.
>
>If it isn't, then software browsers (Netscape/IE) should
>be allowed to do it too.
>
>Perhaps Declan could investigate and get a story out of it.
He is off the grid until next week, at which point he starts working for
Wired News. We'l try to get something on this for Wednesday.
jtg
James Glave, News Editor, Wired News, http://www.wired.com (415) 276-8430
