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Re: EPIC releases 1999 Crypto report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Jun 10 11:49:34 1999
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 16:24:48 -0700
To: dccp@eff.org, cryptography@c2.net
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906081523400.17372-100000@gwyn.tux.org>
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At 03:32 PM 6/8/99 -0400, K. M. Ellis wrote:
> http://www2.epic.org/reports/crypto1999.html
Looking at countries in the green column, they tended to be
smaller countries, with the notable exception of Germany. As
a general rule, the smaller a country, the more likely it was
to oppose controls on cryptography.
Some of them were merely backward "Huh? Cryptography?"
However many smaller countries did seem to display a fair bit
of conscious and intentional hostility to encryption
controls.
I conjecture that for a small country, communications with
the outside world are more important, and US spying upon your
citizens more disturbing and threatening, than they are for a
larger country.
The international export controls have been presented to the
US sheep as "Hey, let us spy upon the outside world.", a
presentation that like all good lies contains a large amount
of truth. This presentation probably does not appeal to
citizens of the outside world.
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James A. Donald
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