Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:57:24AM -0500, john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
> > I had to deal with this idiocy back in the eighties when I was building
> > computers which may have qualified as 'munitions'.
>
> And remember that books are the purest form of evil and should always be
> burned if they have not been published by the gornenment.
Especially those containing crypto source code, as they can be legally
exported (OCR fonts, anyone?) I don't know if anyone has tried a test
case of a book which contains a uuencoded binary.
Welcome to "the land of the free and the home of the brave".
>
> The current edition of the dictionary is much smaller than the last edition,
> and the edition they're working on will be smaller yet.
>
> You already know what happens in room 101.
>
> We have always been at war with Oceanna.
>
> Newscasters never lie and television is the purest form of entertainment.
>
> Place all of your trust in those in power. Certainly they could not have
> gotten there without being honest, hard working, good people could they? No
> of course not, don't be silly, the public would reject a corrupt leader.
>
> And remember to be home by 6:30pm, only criminals are out later than that
> and the hard curfew is 7pm after all. Anyone found outside after curfew is
> obviously a criminal and quite probably a traitor.
>
> They want to know where have you been? No, it's all right, they know where
> you've been.
>
>
> (Does it sound like I think these export policies are idiotic at the least
> and the sign of darker motives clad in the name of Safety and Security at
> worst? I thought so.)
>
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