[47872] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Block)
Wed Jan 24 13:52:32 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 12:44:21 -0500
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
From: jpb@miamisci.org (Joe Block)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 11:50 PM 1/23/96, you wrote:
>The problem is whether you can separate the functionality of what you're
>exporting sufficiently from what you're contracting out that the exported
>material isn't a "component of a cryptosystem"; it's tough to do a good bones
>version of code if you're concerned about satisfying both the letter and
>spirit of a law to avoid hassles with the government. On the other hand,
>if you're as big as IBM or even MIT, sometimes you can do it....
So move 100% of the development overseas. Pick someplace where the labor
is cheaper (maybe the former Soviet Union, but I don't know what their
crypto export laws are like) and develop 100% of the product overseas. Put
a notice inside each shrink-wrapped box that "This product was forced to be
written overseas, costing American programmers their jobs, by the
shortsightedness of Congress."
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