At 10:48 PM 9/3/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Since when does it take 48 hours for a FedEx delivery to Europe?
Actually, some recent FedEx packages I sent to Europe took about that long. Add to that the overhead of going to the mailbox and putting it up for ftp and 48 hours is cutting it pretty close.
(Not to mention a direct transmissio, except there the chances of detection are actually greater.)
That depends. Some printed matter I sent to Europe not too long ago arrived with a tag stating that diversion to certain countries would be in violation of US export laws. I am not 100% certain, but I do not recall that tag being on the box when it was shipped from the mailbox place. Which suggests that somebody along the way opened the package and inspected its contents. When asking FedEx about this, the clerk assured me that it was routine for US customs to inspect outgoing packages. The clerk seemed quite confused that I was unaware of this fact. I strongly suspect that if some Cyphercriminals were to aid in exporting the information contained on that CDROM, they would use electronic means. I may be wrong. OK, I'll offer a prize: $10 in Ecash to the person that best predicts the time it will take to export the entire contents of the Dr. Dobbs crypto CD. The time span of interest is the average of the time during which the first three US purchasers stating they received the CD and the time its contents are received by a European or Asian crypto archive as determined by its curator. If no US purchasers provide me with the time at which they received their CD, I will use the time at which I received my CD. I am the final judge of the contest. Entries go to me, not to the list. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/