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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Thu May 29 16:18:59 1997
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 16:11:07 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970529124432.27672A-100000@cybercash.com>
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At 12:47 PM 5/29/97 -0400, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:
>The text below has the error of stating the Phil Zimmerman posting PGP on the
>Internet. If that were clear, then he would have be prosecuted by the US
>Government, although whether he would have been convicted is another
>question.
Prosecution was also not certain. Note that no one has been prosecuted for
software exports even though there's been a great deal of it going on, some
of
it in public. The Feds worried over the years about the effect of a loss in
court on their regulatory scheme so have played "chicken" with the rest of
us.
Their game has been losing its effectiveness recently.
DCF
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