[117791] in Cypherpunks
Re: ACTION ALERT: Crypto Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mseli@earthlink.net)
Fri Sep 10 15:35:24 1999
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:13:04 +0000
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>, Alan Davidson <abd@cdt.org>
From: M <mseli@earthlink.net>
Cc: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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At 09:25 PM 8/30/99 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>In <v04011702b3f0b872d00d@[207.226.3.28]>, on 08/30/99
>PGP Inc has already shown the way to bypass the export regulations. All
>this helps is the big corporate software houses that produce untrustworthy
>security products (Microsoft, Netscape, IBM, SUN, ...ect). This is basic
>divide and conquer strategy by the government to remove the big money from
>the crypto fight. Human rights workers & the everyday computer user will
>be *worse* off if this bill is passed.
>
Personally, I would never use the PGP by myself for my own purposes. I
would also hesitate to approve any MS security products for my use.
