Re: More problems for non-US?
>> David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> wrote:
>> > I wonder if SPI might be able to organize some civil disobbedience of
>> > some sort. The computer industry is rather vital, at this point. Maybe
>> > something a long the lnes of that export-a-crypto web page, but bigger
>> > and more high profile.
>>
>> I'm not sure if civil disobedience is the right approach here. It might
>> be, but the underlying laws are those focused on warfare...
>>
>> The right thing to do is to get people to realize how silly it is to
>> classify encryption as a weapon. [Can you imagine attacking someone
>> with a piece of encryption software? Maybe, if you had a printout of
>> the source and you could get your victim to hold still, you could get
>> in a lucky paper cut.]
Hmms. Angry hacker charging towards somebody with floppy disks
loaded with pgp signatures & cyptografic software.
>> That, and pointing out the things it *is* useful for.
>>
>> That, and pointing out what massive parallelism (optical or perhaps
>> quantum computing, or any of a variety of not to distant future
>> possibilities) will do to the currently accepted standards of
>> "unbreakability".
About demonstrations: what if like thousands of people would
cross the border from US/Whatever to Canada/Mexico/whereever
encryption software is illegal to export from with floppies filled with
software, which has let's say militarily thinking null value practically,
.. . A good demonstration.
This would work better in Europer where we have more and tightly
arranged borders.
--j
"Steam!"
thoughts at 6am.
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