[48357] in Cypherpunks
Re: more RANTING about NSA-friendly cpunks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Sun Jan 28 16:33:41 1996
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 13:32:54 -0800
To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>, packrat@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 1:04 PM 1/28/96 -0800, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
>Zimmermann supports my contention, as I wrote in the post. NOTHING
>happened to him. it is conceivable this same result could have
>been arrived at (government drops investigation) if he never even
>hired a lawyer.
>
>Zimmermann is a perfect example of what may be counterproductive
>hysteria on *our* side, toward advancing crypto. if Zimmermann
>cannot be prosecuted, and is not prosecuted, where are the ITAR "teeth"???
I am not a lawyer, but I suspect that the proscuters gave up because they
could not build a trail of evidence between Zimmermann and the actual
export. After all, Zimmermann only wrote PGP. He didn't post it on the
net.
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