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Sovereignty issues and Palladium/TCPA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri Jan 31 10:28:02 2003
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:18:44 +1300
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, cypherpunks@lne.com
It looks like Palladium (or whatever it's called this week) is of concern not
just to individuals but to governments as well (the following text forwarded
from elsewhere):
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Governments would want to explore the implications of the use and
retention of government-held information and use of software for government
business.
More particularly, governments are likely to want to explore the issues
related to potential foreign control/influence over domestic governmental
use/access to domestic government held data.
In other words, what are the practical and policy implications for a
government if a party external to the government may have the potential
power to turn off our access to its own information and that of its
citizens.
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Unlike China, not everyone can address this problem by building their own
systems from the silicon on up.
Peter.
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