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Re: And so it begins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Aug 11 11:33:19 2000
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:47:42 -0700
To: "Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Of course, with Microsoft Internet Exploiter built into all Windows
systems these days, that means that _every_ Windows laptop is a spy tool
unless the user has hacked out the browsers. Which would be suspicious in
itself :-)
At 09:05 AM 8/10/00 -0500, Matt Crawford wrote:
>This came third-hand, Sandia -> DOE -> me
>
>> > "Per the Office of Diplomatic Security, Department of State,
>> > Egypt, France and Russia have instituted the following: Laptop computers
>> > with encryption capability are considered "SPY TOOLS" and will be seized
>> > or denied entry into the country."
>>
>> We understand that Kazakhstan has a similar position.
>
>"With encryption capability" sounds a little vague, but that's par
>for the course.
>
>There's also an old note on this subject wrt. Russia at
>http://travel.state.gov/gps.html.
>
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Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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