[67856] in Cypherpunks
Re: Microsoft CAPI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Fri Oct 11 10:19:34 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:39:09 -0500
From: Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>
Reply-To: m5@tivoli.com
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>,
Ravi Pandya <rpandya@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
James A. Donald wrote:
>
> Mike McNally writes:
> >> And so what happens when the Microsoft key is compromised?
>
> At 03:13 PM 10/9/96 -0500, Andrew Loewenstern wrote:
> > I ask: "Who Cares?" ...
> Better than disabling, would be to give the user the choice ...
Agreed, agreed, but my point was to wonder out loud whether such
"breakages" of the CAPI safety net that gets it the nod for export
would cause the State/Commerce/Spook department to rescind that
permission.
Maybe since the whole export control thing is just an enormous
government-inflated cloud of FUD it doesn't really matter.
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