[52336] in Cypherpunks
Re: Would the FTC crack down on snake oil someday?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mutant Rob)
Tue Mar 19 20:33:24 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 20:11:47 -0500
From: Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
To: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Mark M. wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Deranged Mutant wrote:
>
> > Enclosed is an excerpt from Edupage. Snake-oil crypto popped into my
> > mind.... I wonder if the FTC (Federal Trade Commission... agency
> > *meant* to crack down on consumer fraud, for non-US readers here)
> > would ever get into act here.
> >
> > Does the FTC have a home page? (Guess I'll do a search...)
>
> http://www.ftc.gov .
Cool. They now have a privacy mailing list...
(Check out http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm)
