[52370] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Leahy Crypto Bill is Rancid Sausage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan B. McCullagh)
Wed Mar 20 15:54:18 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:32:06 -0500 (EST)
From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: mech@eff.org
Excerpted from a message to fight-censorship. For the full thread, check out:
http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/fight-censorship/dl?thread
=The+Leahy+Crypto+Bill+is+Rancid+Sausage&after=1795&type=short
(On one line, of course.)
-Declan
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From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
Message-Id: <199603190315.TAA05777@eff.org>
To: declan+@CMU.EDU (Declan B. McCullagh)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:15:09 -0800 (PST)
Cc: fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu, junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu,
tcmay@got.net
[...]
As our statement on the bill made clear, *EFF does not support the Leahy
bill*, nor do we endorse it, like it, find it useful or any other synonym.
We're happy to see the issues raise again, a la Cantwell, but we
specifically recommended simple and complete deregulation. As our
co-founder John Gilmore points out, the Leahy bill as written
pre-supposes Congressional authority to legislate in this are, and
Executive authority to regulate under that legislation. These are notions
that we, and Phil Karn, are challenging in court with Constitutional
tests we are throwing at the ITAR export regs.
[...]
