At 10:10 AM 10/27/95 -0400, "Josh M. Osborne" <stripes@va.pubnix.com> wrote:
They may help spread the word about how foolish the ITAR is, and that is their only real value (well aside from entertainment).
US News & World Report, October 16, 1995, page 28, has a short article on the shirt in their Washington Whispers column :-) It's not totally accurate, but it talks about how the Feds oppose export of "simple but powerful computer programs that can be used to encrypt electronic communications. Computer buffs and private security experts say such restrictions are a threat to privacy - as well as an absurd anachronism, since the programs are already widely available. To underscore the point, one disgruntled citizen is now offering for sale over the Internet (http://colossus.net/ wepinsto/wshome.html) a T-shirt emblazoned with an encryption program known as RSA" and a bit more about the shirt and issues (and Don's refund offer to anyone arrested for wearing it)
However I think it is a good idea to slowly approch the dividing line between exportable and non-exportable. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to hold up the shirt and say "this is exportable", and then scan it & save it onto a floppy and then say "this is not" (assuming that a floppy of the shirt is denyed CJ) when arguing with someone about how arbatary the export laws are?
Obviously the next revision of the shirt should have a pocket for the optional non-exportable floppy disk :-) #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #---