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Re: Drastic crypto crackdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Tue Aug 26 18:40:06 1997
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:29:47 -0700 (PDT)
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>, jim@mentat.com (Jim Gillogly),
cryptography@c2.net
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
At 08:39 AM 8/26/97 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> It would be just as silly to refuse the sale of crypto to
> customers in France in Singapore.
France has a history of using violent means against foreigners
for political reasons, most famously the Greenpeace bombing,
and the subsequent pressure on New Zealand.
Singapore does not. This probably reflects size, rather than police
state propensities. France sometimes suffers from imperial delusions.
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