[52373] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Leahy Crypto Bill is Rancid Sausage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stanton McCandlish)
Wed Mar 20 16:04:44 1996
From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
To: declan+@CMU.EDU (Declan B. McCullagh)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:36:27 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <UlI6h6G00YUvMRsy5h@andrew.cmu.edu> from "Declan B. McCullagh" at Mar 20, 96 03:32:06 pm
Declan B. McCullagh typed:
>
> 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
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message begins here ----------
>
> 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
raised
> 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
area
> 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.
>
> [...]
>
>
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