[67890] in Cypherpunks
Re: Kantor on GAK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Fri Oct 11 17:51:43 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:20:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v03007800ae8433cf4e0a@[207.167.93.63]>
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> At 8:29 AM -0400 10/11/96, John Young wrote:
> > You assume that foreign buyers would not buy key-recovery
> > products, but you ignore the trend -- especially in Europe
> > -- to require use of key-recovery products and bar the
> > import of stronger and stronger encryption products that do
> > not take law enforcement into account.
>
> So, because some countries will not allow import into _their_ countries of
> non-GAK software, this means GAK must be mandated on U.S. _exports_? Since
> when it is our responsibilty to enforce other nation's import laws?
> (Because Iran will not allow the import of blasphemous literature, should
> the USG ban all export of such material from the U.S.?)
Note that Mickey Kantor is doing _exactly_ what has been predicted on
this very list: he is using the (very limited) response the US received
from other countries by strongarming said countries into supporting a
pro-GAK position to manipulate the American public into accepting GAK by
pretending the US must respond to the requests of the world market.
--Lucky, who hopes everybody on this list will vote for Harry Browne.
