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Companies Ignore China's Encryption Regulations (was Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Wed Feb 2 11:43:52 2000
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 07:56:24 -0500
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 9:48 AM -0700 on 2/1/00, NewsScan wrote:
> COMPANIES IGNORE CHINA'S ENCRYPTION REGULATIONS
> If everyone covered by China's new regulations on encryption registration
> had complied, about nine million Internet users would have shown up in one
> tiny government office to hand-deliver a form specifying what kind of
> encryption they used on their computers. Instead, only a handful of people
> showed up. Chinese officials have said there will be no extension of the
> deadline, but apparently have not yet decided what to do about the companies
> that missed it -- a group that includes virtually every Chinese and foreign
> company doing business in China. (Reuters/New York Times 1 Feb 2000)
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/01china-encryptio
> n.html
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The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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