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Commerce Department admits export ctrls harm U.S. firms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed Apr 15 17:47:01 1998
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:47:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:47:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Subject: Commerce Department admits crypto-guilt
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It seems as unthinkable as Sen. Dan Coats winning an ACLU free speech
award. Commerce Secretary William Daley this morning said his own
agency's encryption export restrictions have harmed high tech firms.
"The reality is that encryption products are rapidly multiplying in
the global marketplace," he said at an event where he unveiled a
mammoth electronic commerce report. "The ultimate result will be the
foreign dominance of this market." Daley advised the FBI and the
computer industry to sit down for a friendly chat, shake hands, and
cut a deal -- though he said, "I don't want to lay out what the
compromise would be." Trade associations welcomed Daley's cathartic
admission of Commerce Department guilt. "No kidding," says Lauren Hall
of the Software Publishers Association. "That's what industry has been
arguing for six years. But industry is not going to reach a compromise
that puts data security and privacy at risk." Problem is: the FBI may
not agree to anything else. --By Declan McCullagh/Washington
