[52757] in Cypherpunks
Re: ITAR double standards?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Asgaard)
Wed Mar 27 13:03:19 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 18:20:32 +0100 (MET)
From: Asgaard <asgaard@sos.sll.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v02110113ad7de267a933@[194.125.43.26]>
On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Richard K. Moore wrote:
> velocity from terrestial anachronisms. While Barlow's critics, it seems,
> demolished _that_ thesis as wishful thinking, there's a parallel thesis
> that may actually be true: that _corporate environments_ have achieved
> escape velocity from civil jurisdiction, and now live in a world where
> rules & ethics are relative only to corporate culture, and "parochial"
> national laws are to be quietly ignored, knowing there's a highly-paid
> legal staff to deal with occasional embarrasments.
I believe in this parallel thesis. As was reported from the dec -95
OECD meeting in Paris:
>The statement from SHELL International is interesting.
>They can accept 'a trustworthy international key escrow
>infrastructure based on X.509 certificates' but they also
>need to 'protect their assets against Government intelligence
>gathering, organised crime, civil unrest and data privacy
>legislation obligations'.
Asgaard
