[91324] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDT and the Threat of Gov't Intervention
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Koro)
Wed Dec 3 22:05:10 1997
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 17:59:48 -0800
From: Koro <ksahin@best.com>
To: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
CC: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Koro <ksahin@best.com>
David Honig wrote:
>
> At 12:56 PM 12/3/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
> >
> >
> >And there are some who want "mislabelling" made a crime. Thus, if I claim
> >that my site and my words are suitable for children, and someone (like
> >Janet Reno) disagrees, I could be charged with "misrepresentation."
> >
>
> To pluck that string, I'm occasionally developing an essay which teaches
> kids about
> encryption.. building up to strong product-ciphers by exploring what you
> can do with
> iterating simple operations, and how they affect the data. At the end of
> the lesson they learn
> that giving this document to a foreign-born friend would make them ITAR
> criminals.
I hear it's not ITAR anymore. Now it's an EAR violation.
Of course, ITAR was more fun. If you violated that law under ITAR you
can proudly wear the title of International Arms Trafficker.
> Subversive online cypherpunk comic books? If I could draw.
Get your Ultra-Top-Secret 1024-bit Decoder Ring kiddies!
--
KORO
