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Re: Sovereignty issues and Palladium/TCPA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Howe)
Fri Jan 31 10:28:47 2003
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From: "David Howe" <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
To: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>, <cypherpunks@lne.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:25:38 -0000
at Friday, January 31, 2003 2:18 AM, Peter Gutmann
<pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> was seen to say:
<schnipp>
> 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.
And indeed - download patches silently to change the "disable"
functionality to "email anything interesting directly to the CIA"
functionality.....
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