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Re: Drastic crypto crackdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Aug 26 11:59:28 1997
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:39:08 -0700
To: jim@mentat.com (Jim Gillogly), cryptography@c2.net
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <9708260004.AA23598@mentat.com>
At 05:04 PM 8/25/97 PDT, Jim Gillogly wrote:
[On crypto import restrictions in Singapore]
>If this is correct, it's not surprising that PGP or others wouldn't
>encourage people to download freely, since they have no way to verify
>that potential customers have gotten these approvals.
I think a US company couldn't care less if a customer abroad wishes to
purchase merchandise from said company that is considered contraband in the
country the customer resides in. If a customer from a Muslim country wishes
to purchase dresses that fail to cover the knee, would you refuse the sale?
Of course not. It would be just as silly to refuse the sale of crypto to
customers in France in Singapore.
--Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
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