[679] in Cypherpunks
An editorial comment from comp.risks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas W. Strong, Jr.)
Mon May 31 15:13:21 1993
Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 21:09:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Thomas W. Strong, Jr." <strong+@cmu.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In an article about the absurdity of ITAR legislation, Peter Neuman (the
moderator) added this comment at the bottom.
> [Incidentally, at last week's IEEE Symposium on Research in Security
> and Privacy, a rump group decided that because crypto falls under
> munitions controls, the right to bear arms must sanction private uses of
> cryptography! PGN]
Does anyone here have any more information about this? Particularly
whether or not it can be backed up?
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