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Re: FC: More on Network Associates and its crypto-politics

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas L. Peterson)
Wed Nov 18 15:51:25 1998

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:07:29 -0700
From: "Douglas L. Peterson" <fnorky@chisp.net>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>,
        "cypherpunks@Algebra.com" <cypherpunks@Algebra.com>
Reply-To: "Douglas L. Peterson" <fnorky@chisp.net>

Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> William -- your speculation may be true, but for now we can settle for
> fact: they do support export controls. It makes sense, too: export ctrls
> create an artificial market for key recovery crypto, which TIS will be
> happy to sell to you.

Wouldn't this only work if import controls were put in place?  Right now
there is very little to keep me from buying non-GAK software from
someone
other than TIS.

-Doug
www.TheServerFarm.net


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