[6138] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: draft regulations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Fri Nov 26 13:03:38 1999
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 22:26:50 -0500 (EST)
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Martin Minow writes:
>
> Russell Nelson wrote:
> > ... You also have to (somehow) prevent users from
> > Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria form downloading
> > the code.
>
> Ok. how am I going to do that (rhetorical question)? My Web Server is the
> module distributed with every recent MacOS system (i.e., all those millions
> of iMac's and iBooks). It's a Control Panel (TSR in DOS-speak) called
> "Web Sharing". As far as I know, it has no mechanism for preventing
> certain domains from accessing a local web page. Of course, I could
> put up a link that says "click here if you aren't a terrorist", but
> I rather doubt that this will satisfy the regulations.
Make the code accessible only through a CGI script which does a
reverse lookup on the IP address, and if it's a bad guy, send them a
picture of Bill Clinton eating a steak, bacon and cheese sandwich
(which in theory ought to offend *every* religious person, with Bill
Clinton there to mop up the irreligious).
Of course, that doesn't do a *darned* thing to prevent an embassy
official from hand-carrying it out of the country, or someone
downloading it through anonymizer.com, or someone ftp'ing it down to
an ISP with a shell account, etc etc etc. It's just a damn stupid
waste of people's time. I'm going to suggest that it be removed.
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