[47962] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu Jan 25 03:02:05 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 23:26:00 -0800
To: alex@suba.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
At 14:49 1/24/96, Alex Strasheim wrote:
>Big companies like Netscape, Sun, Microsoft, and IBM/Lotus, on the other
>hand, will almost certainly achieve their objectives if they win the
>political fight. They'll make buckets of money selling crypto software
>abroad. And if they lose the fight, they're going to be handing big
>opportunities to foreign competitors.
The big companies are fighting? Where did you get that idea? IBM/Lotus just
gave the feds the keys. Not a single one of the major players has
challenged the government in any meaningful way. Sure, they make a lot of
noise as to how they dislike the regulations, but they certainly aren't
making a sincere effort of trying to change them.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
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