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Re: WILL GATES GET SERIOUS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Rodger)
Tue Sep 23 14:39:09 1997
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 14:35:38 -0400
To: "Vincent L. Diaz" <vldiaz@san.rr.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Will Rodger <rodger@worldnet.att.net>
In-Reply-To: <199709231440.HAA21808@mail.san.rr.com>
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At 02:40 PM 9/23/97 +0000, Vincent L. Diaz wrote:
>I, for one would like know how far Microsoft and Bill Gates are to
go to
>oppose these nonsensical attempts to control strong cryptography.
>
>I know that he is a member of, and has appeared in Washington with,
his
>fellow members of the Business Software Alliance. But is there any
>indication that he is willing to get involved this fight in a more
personal way?
>
>Many have decidedly mixed feeling about Gates, but the fact is that
he the
>major player in this industry that these illiterates in Congress
might pay
>real attention to he started to get serious about this issue. Any
comments?
>
Only one - and it's a little unclear. A couple of days before the
House International Relations committee voted to move SAFE forward,
officials from the NSA, FBI and Commerce huddled with sponsors and
members of the IR committee. Present were Crowell of the NSA, FBI
Director Freeh, Commerce Undersecretary William Reinsch, Rep.
Goodlatte, Rep. Lofgren and others. Declassified transcripts show
that Reinsch made a comment (this is from memory) that "Bill Gates
doesn't seem to think the future of software is in key recovery" and
referred to the SAFE bill as Microsoft's bill. Chief sponsor
Goodlatte, of course, said it wasn't just Bill's bill, but others',
too.
Reinsch was quite pointed in his comments. We may never know how
personal his involvement was in the issue, but from the looks of the
transcript, it's very personal, indeed.
I believe the redacted transcript is somewhere on http://jya.com.
Will Rodger
Washington Bureau Chief
Inter@ctive Week
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