[43378] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA, ITAR, NCSA and plug-in hooks.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Nov 14 16:04:37 1995
To: James Black <black@sunflash.eng.usf.edu>
Cc: Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>, s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Nov 1995 14:49:23 EST."
<Pine.SUN.3.91.951114144604.9607A-100000@sunflash.eng.usf.edu>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 15:50:43 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
James Black writes:
> I scanned through the ITAR, and I agree that there doesn't seem to be
> anything about hooks that are illegal, but the NSA does have the
> authority to protect whatever threatens national security.
Since when? They aren't a police agency. They have no power to arrest
or prosecute, and they don't even (directly) make any decisions on any
of this stuff (although they are responsible for the decisions that
made).
.pm
