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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9812100902510.28323-100000@ultra1-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 15:10:43 -0500 To: cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net, dcsb@ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> At 9:05 AM -0500 on 12/10/98, Ken Williams wrote: > "Strike to protest Wassenaar!" > > URL: http://www.zanshin.com/~bobg/ > > "This is a global call for computer professionals to strike on > Monday, 14 December, 1998 to protest the signing of the Wassenaar > Arrangement, an international treaty that imposes new restrictions > on cryptographic software technology. Now, *this* is interesting... Anyone actually contemplating doing this? I mean, we could *all* stand to do a little extra (meatspace) Christmas shopping on Monday, right? (Then, I guess, we could all do our cypherspace Christmas shopping on *Tuesday*, just to drive the point home, stick-and-carrot-wise...) Cheers, Robert Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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